Research Article

Random Forests in Count Data Modelling: An Analysis of the Influence of Data Features and Overdispersion on Regression Performance

Table 5

Description of methods’ predictive performance and Tukey’s HSD pairwise comparisons for different levels of overdispersion.

Variance-to-mean relationshipMethods

BIAS
LinearLog_linear
Neg.Bin
Poisson
Quasi-Poisson
RF
ZIP
QuadraticLog_linear
Neg.Bin
Poisson
Quasi-Poisson
RF
ZIP

RMSE
LinearLog_linear
Neg.Bin
Poisson
Quasi-Poisson
RF
ZIP
QuadraticLog_linear
Neg.Bin
Poisson
Quasi-Poisson
RF
ZIP