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. 2020 Oct 12:1–8. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.372

TABLE 3.

Relative Importance of Pollutants Based on Machine Learning Techniques

Decision Trees Linear Regression Random Forest
Pollutant Importance Pollutant Importance Pollutant Importance
NO 2 100 NH 3 100 Ozone 100
Ozone 94.94 CO 37.07 NH 3 93.36
NH 3 81.9 Ozone 36.33 NO2 63.65
PM 10 68.97 PM 10 30.14 PM 10 48.94
PM2.5 52.53 NO2 27.99 SO2 40.63
SO2 26.63 PM2.5 22.12 AQI 32.58
CO 0 AQI 21.13 PM2.5 23.92
Toluene 0 SO2 12.3 CO 14.28
AQI 0 Toluene 11.41 Toluene 14.04
Benzene 0 Benzene 0 Benzene 0