dates at each split allows for something other than the best split to be the top split, thus growing many different looking trees - this "decorrelates" the trees.  
- **forests** because many trees are grown!

Leo Breiman also wrote the seminal paper on random forests:  
[Breiman L. 2001. Random forests. Machine learning 45:5–32](https://stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/randomforest2001.pdf)

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# Random forest 

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