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resubMargin

Classification margins by resubstitution

Description

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M = resubMargin(tree) returns resubstitution classification margins for tree.

Examples

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Find the margins for a classification tree for the Fisher iris data by resubstitution. Examine several entries.

load fisheriris
tree = fitctree(meas,species);
M = resubMargin(tree);
M(1:25:end)
ans =
    1.0000
    1.0000
    1.0000
    1.0000
    0.9565
    0.9565

Input Arguments

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Classification tree, specified as a ClassificationTree object. Use the fitctree function to create a classification tree object.

Output Arguments

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Classification margins, returned as a numeric column vector of length size(tree.X,1)

More About

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Margin

Classification margin is the difference between classification score for the true class and maximal classification score for the false classes. A high value of margin indicates a more reliable prediction than a low value.

Score (tree)

For trees, the score of a classification of a leaf node is the posterior probability of the classification at that node. The posterior probability of the classification at a node is the number of training sequences that lead to that node with the classification, divided by the number of training sequences that lead to that node.

For an example, see Posterior Probability Definition for Classification Tree.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2011a