Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4947-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4947-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
Research article
 | 
09 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2021

Development of a Wilks feature importance method with improved variable rankings for supporting hydrological inference and modelling

Kailong Li, Guohe Huang, and Brian Baetz

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We proposed a test statistic feature importance method to quantify the importance of predictor variables for random-forest-like models. The proposed method does not rely on any performance measures to evaluate variable rankings, which can thus result in unbiased variable rankings. The resulting variable rankings based on the proposed method could help random forest achieve its optimum predictive accuracy.
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