Exercise

Fine tune your model

Wow! That was a significant improvement over a regression model. Now let's see if you can further improve this performance by fine tuning your random forest models. To do this you will vary the mtry parameter when building your random forest models on your train data.

The default value of mtry for ranger is the rounded down square root of the total number of features (6). This results in a value of 2.

Instructions

100 XP

Use crossing() to expand the cross validation data for values of mtry ranging from 2 through 5.
Build random forest models for each fold/mtry combination.

Take Hint (-30 XP)