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What is the effect of correlated trees on ensemble error?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Correlated trees increase ensemble error by reducing variance reduction benefits.
Deep explanation
If trees make similar errors, averaging does not cancel them out. The effectiveness of Random Forest depends heavily on decorrelation between trees achieved via bootstrap sampling and feature randomness.
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