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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Sch Psychol. 2014 Nov 14;53(1):7–24. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2014.10.001

Model Specification for the Random Forests Method

Number of Random Samples 1000
Percentage of Students of Random Sample to that of Original Data 63.20%
Sampling with Replacement to Draw Random Samples No
Test Statistic Selecting the Covariate and the Split Value Quadratic Form
Adjustment to Multiple Testing of Covariates No Adjustment
Number of Covariates to Randomly Sample in Each Selection of Covariate All Covariates
Minimum Number of Students in Each Intermediate Node 100
Minimum Number of Students in Each Terminal Node 1
Maximum Depth of Classification Tree Model No control
Data Used to Calculate Propensity Scores Using Each Classification Tree Out-of-bag Data