Forest Pruning Based on Branch Importance

Table 4

The testing results using post hoc, Alg1, Alg2, Alg3, Alg4, Alg5, and Alg6 indicate PF pruning bagging with unpruned C4.5, bagging with unpruned C4.5, PF pruning bagging with pruned C4.5, bagging with pruned C4.5, PF pruning random forest, and random forest.

Comparison	Statistic	value
Alg1 versus Alg2	2.64469	0.04088
Alg3 versus Alg4	3.55515	0.00189
Alg5 versus Alg6	3.33837	0.01264