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Table 12 Detailed nomenclature for machine learning-related variables

From: A machine learning approach for mapping the very shallow theoretical geothermal potential

Symbol

Unit

Description

\(\varphi\)

(–)

Generic predictive function learned from training process

B

(–)

Number of trees in a Random Forest

d

(–)

Number of features (predictors) in the training data for an ML task

\(E_{{\text{R}}}\)

(–)

Root Mean Square Error

\(E_{{\text{NR}}}\)

(–)

Normalized Root Mean Square Error

K

(–)

Number of folds consider in fold cross-validation

m

(–)

Number of variables to consider to split a node v in a decision tree

N

(–)

Number of training points (size of training data)

\(N_{{\text{test}}}\)

(–)

Number of testing point (size of testing data)

\({\mathbb {R}}\)

(–)

Set of real numbers

\({\mathbf {x}}\)

(var. unit)

Generic input vector (realization of \(X_{1},...,X_{d}\))

\(X_{1},...,X_{d}\)

(var. unit)

Generic input variables

y

(var. unit)

Generic output value (label, realization of Y)

Y

(var. unit)

Generic output variable

  1. (–) signifies no unit. (var. unit) signifies that the unit is defined by the quantity of interest represented by the variable