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. 2021 Oct 9;21(20):6715. doi: 10.3390/s21206715
T the total number of decision trees in the random forest
Y a collection of all target labels y
t decision tree t
x single sample
y the predicted label of x in the random forest, yY
rkt(y) the ratio of samples belonging to label y on node k in decision tree t
LIkt(y) the local importance of node k in decision tree t with predicted label y
ft(x) the prediction of sample x in decision tree t
vt(x,y) the binary voting variable of decision tree t on whether the sample prediction equals to y
Pt(x,y) the possibility that the sample prediction equals to y in decision tree t
RSk(x,y) the reliability score calculated by the decision path sample x passes in decision tree t
RSmin(x,y), RSmax(x,y) the minimum and maximum values of RS in all decision trees
HRF,hard, HRF,soft, HDPRF,hard, HDPRF,soft the voting results of RF and DPRF under the hard and soft voting rule, respectively
𝒟𝒫(t,x),𝒟𝒫miss(t,x) the collection of all the nodes of the decision path in decision tree t, and the collection of all the corresponding missing nodes, respectively.