Tree-Based Models Using Random Grid Search Optimization for Disease Classification Based on Environmental Factors: A Case Study on Asthma Hospitalizations

An understanding on the exposure to environmental factors aggravating global disease burden can aid mitigating it. Generally, a class of generalized linear models and generalized additive models are used in predicting disease burden whereas, tree-based models are underused. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of different tree-based models namely decision tree, random forest...