Answers.Body: <p>Yes, the regularization which is typically done on decision trees which makes the leaves non-pure is not needed in random forests due to the structure of the algorithm.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am trying to understand the basics of random forest machine learning applied to vegetation classification. Do I understand correctly that the output/leaf node of each individual decision tree contains a single class?</p>
  
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Title: Does a Random Forest leaf give a specific output for a specific class in a multi class random forest
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ThreadText: # Does a Random Forest leaf give a specific output for a specific class in a multi class random forest
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-18)
  
  I am trying to understand the basics of random forest machine learning applied to vegetation classification. Do I understand correctly that the output/leaf node of each individual decision tree contains a single class?
  
  **Tags:** multiclass-classification, random-forests
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-04-18. Score: 1
  
  Yes, the regularization which is typically done on decision trees which makes the leaves non-pure is not needed in random forests due to the structure of the algorithm.
  
  
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