| HVCB | High-voltage circuit breakers |
| DT | Decision tree algorithm |
| NB | Naive bayes algorithm |
| OCSVM | One class support vector Machine |
| BT | Bagger decision tree algorithm |
| RF | Random forest |
| OOB | Out of bagging |
| WPT | wavelet package transform |
| WTFE | wavelet time-frequency entropy |
| WTFER | wavelet time-frequency energy rate |
| Ei,j | energy in the i-th time and j-th frequency section |
| Pi,j | energy rate alone frequency direction |
| Qi,j | energy rate alone time direction |
| S | training sample set |
| X | test sample set |
| C i | i-th sample feature ∈ Rd, |
| d | feature space dimension |
| k | k-th feature in feature space |
| Li | i-th sample label (Fault type) ∈ R |
| Hj | j-th decision tree |
| T | collection of trees represent forest |
| N tree | number of tree in the forest |
| Sj oob | OOB data set in j-th decision tree |
| Sj,k oob | OOB data set that permuting k-th feature in Sjoob for j-th decision tree |
| Rj oob | number of correct classification in j-th decision tree with OOB data |
| Rj,k oob | number of correct classification in j-th decision tree for Sj,koob |
| Dk | important measure for k-th feature |
| δ | minimum feature space dimension |
| λ | reduce rate |
| RFm | m-th random forest model |
| E oob,m | error rate of OOB data in m-th random forest model |