Identifying CpG sites associated with eczema via random forest screening of epigenome-scale DNA methylation

Clinical Epigenetics

Table 2 The performance of recursive RF at each iteration

Iteration	Number of CpGs	(OOB-ER) Overall misclassification	Eczema misclassification	Non-eczema misclassification
1	307,357	18.6 %	95.7 %	7.5 %
2	153,678	15.3 %	82.6 %	5.6 %
3	76,838	18.6 %	87.0 %	8.8 %
4	38,419	16.1 %	65.2 %	9.1 %
5	19,208	17.8 %	80.4 %	8.8 %
6	9604	14.2 %	78.3 %	5.0 %
7	4802	12.3 %	58.7 %	5.6 %
8	2401	10.7 %	52.2 %	4.7 %
9	1200	7.9 %	37.0 %	3.8 %
10	599	6.8 %	26.1 %	4.1 %
11	298	6.6 %	30.4 %	3.1 %
12^a	148	5.2 %	17.4 %	3.4 %
13	74	6.3 %	19.6 %	4.4 %
14	37	9.3 %	21.7 %	7.5 %
15	18	8.5 %	26.1 %	5.9 %
16	9	10.7 %	19.6 %	9.4 %
17	3	16.9 %	28.2 %	15.3 %

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