MELODEM presentation today from Dr. Byron Jaeger re introduction random forests, oblique random forests, and causal random forests. Laying the groundwork for the MELODEM data workshop later in this year. school.wakehealth.edu/faculty/j/by...

Supervised machine learning: using labeled data to predict an outcome with "learners" (a procedure to create a prediction model). This can be used for risk prediction. Typical trees just splitting data to maximize correct classification.