Forest Pruning Based on Branch Importance

Table 5

The size (node number) of PF and bagging. denotes that the size of PF is significantly smaller than the corresponding comparing method.

Dataset	Unpruned C4.5		Pruned C4.5		PF-RF	RF
	PF	Bagging	PF	Bagging
Australian
Autos
Backache
Balance-scale
Breast-cancer
Cars
Credit-rating
German-credit
Ecoli
Hayes-roth
Heart-c
Horse-colic
Ionosphere
Iris
Lymphography
Page-blocks
Pima
prnn-fglass
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