{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/5848","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/5848/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/5848/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/5848/events","html_url":"https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/5848","id":117215642,"number":5848,"title":"Out of Bag Score Documentation for Random Forest is Ambiguous","user":{"login":"JeremyNixon","id":4738024,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4738024?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon","html_url":"https://github.com/JeremyNixon","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JeremyNixon/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-11-16T20:55:07Z","updated_at":"2015-11-16T20:55:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Many have been confused about whether the score represents the model's accuracy or its error, examples in issue 'Meaning of oob_score_ in RandomForestClassifier #5838' and Stack overflow post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31438476/parameter-oob-score-in-scikit-learn-equals-accuracy-or-error.\r\n\r\nI propose a slight change to the documentation to remove the ambiguity, and will work on it myself now.\r\n\r\n"}}