David Muchlinski, David Siroky, Jingrui He, Matthew Kocher, Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data, Political Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1 ...

On the other hand, random forest and bagging tree regression models seem to have a good reputation among machine learning practitioners (most of my colleagues at least) because the models often work ...