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随机森林（Random Forest）

随机森林是一个包含多个决策树的分类器，并且其输出的类别是由个别树输出的类别的众数而定。 Leo Breiman和Adele Cutler发展出推论出随机森林的算法。而"Random Forests"是他们的商标。这个术语是1995年由贝尔实验室的Tin Kam Ho所提出的随机决策森林（random decision forests）而来的。这个方法则是结合Breimans的"Bootstrap aggregating"想法和Ho的"random subspace method" 以建造决策树的集合。

随机森林通过集成学习的思想将多棵树集成的一种算法，它的基本单元是决策树，而它的本质属于机器学习的一大分支——集成学习（Ensemble Learning）方法。随机森林的名称中有两个关键词，一个是“随机”，一个就是"森林"。"森林"我们很好理解，一棵叫做树，那么成百上千棵就可以叫做森林了，这样的比喻还是很贴切的，其实这也是随机森林的主要思想–集成思想的体现。其实从直观角度来解释，每棵决策树都是一个分类器（假设现在针对的是分类问题），那么对于一个输入样本，N棵树会有N个分类结果。而随机森林集成了所有的分类投票结果，将投票次数最多的类别指定为最终的输出，这就是一种最简单的 Bagging 思想。

随机森林是一种很灵活实用的方法，它有如下几个特点:

在当前所有算法中，具有极好的准确率;
能够有效地运行在大数据集上;
能够处理具有高维特征的输入样本，而且不需要降维;
能够评估各个特征在分类问题上的重要性;
在生成过程中，能够获取到内部生成误差的一种无偏估计;
对于缺省值问题也能够获得很好得结果;

应用案例

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap
from sklearn.cross_validation import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.datasets import make_moons, make_circles, make_classification
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier, AdaBoostClassifier
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.lda import LDA
from sklearn.qda import QDA

h = .02  # step size in the mesh

names = ["Nearest Neighbors", "Linear SVM", "RBF SVM", "Decision Tree",
         "Random Forest", "AdaBoost", "Naive Bayes", "LDA", "QDA"]
classifiers = [
    KNeighborsClassifier(3),
    SVC(kernel="linear", C=0.025),
    SVC(gamma=2, C=1),
    DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=5),
    RandomForestClassifier(max_depth=5, n_estimators=10, max_features=1),
    AdaBoostClassifier(),
    GaussianNB(),
    LDA(),
    QDA()]

X, y = make_classification(n_features=2, n_redundant=0, n_informative=2,
                           random_state=1, n_clusters_per_class=1)
rng = np.random.RandomState(2)
X += 2 * rng.uniform(size=X.shape)
linearly_separable = (X, y)

datasets = [make_moons(noise=0.3, random_state=0),
            make_circles(noise=0.2, factor=0.5, random_state=1),
            linearly_separable
            ]

figure = plt.figure(figsize=(27, 9))
i = 1
# iterate over datasets
for ds in datasets:
    # preprocess dataset, split into training and test part
    X, y = ds
    X = StandardScaler().fit_transform(X)
    X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=.4)

    x_min, x_max = X[:, 0].min() - .5, X[:, 0].max() + .5
    y_min, y_max = X[:, 1].min() - .5, X[:, 1].max() + .5
    xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, h),
                         np.arange(y_min, y_max, h))

    # just plot the dataset first
    cm = plt.cm.RdBu
    cm_bright = ListedColormap(['#FF0000', '#0000FF'])
    ax = plt.subplot(len(datasets), len(classifiers) + 1, i)
    # Plot the training points
    ax.scatter(X_train[:, 0], X_train[:, 1], c=y_train, cmap=cm_bright)
    # and testing points
    ax.scatter(X_test[:, 0], X_test[:, 1], c=y_test, cmap=cm_bright, alpha=0.6)
    ax.set_xlim(xx.min(), xx.max())
    ax.set_ylim(yy.min(), yy.max())
    ax.set_xticks(())
    ax.set_yticks(())
    i += 1

    # iterate over classifiers
    for name, clf in zip(names, classifiers):
        ax = plt.subplot(len(datasets), len(classifiers) + 1, i)
        clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
        score = clf.score(X_test, y_test)

        # Plot the decision boundary. For that, we will assign a color to each
        # point in the mesh [x_min, m_max]x[y_min, y_max].
        if hasattr(clf, "decision_function"):
            Z = clf.decision_function(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])
        else:
            Z = clf.predict_proba(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])[:, 1]

        # Put the result into a color plot
        Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape)
        ax.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=cm, alpha=.8)

        # Plot also the training points
        ax.scatter(X_train[:, 0], X_train[:, 1], c=y_train, cmap=cm_bright)
        # and testing points
        ax.scatter(X_test[:, 0], X_test[:, 1], c=y_test, cmap=cm_bright,
                   alpha=0.6)

        ax.set_xlim(xx.min(), xx.max())
        ax.set_ylim(yy.min(), yy.max())
        ax.set_xticks(())
        ax.set_yticks(())
        ax.set_title(name)
        ax.text(xx.max() - .3, yy.min() + .3, ('%.2f' % score).lstrip('0'),
                size=15, horizontalalignment='right')
        i += 1

figure.subplots_adjust(left=.02, right=.98)
plt.show()