We developed QSPR model based on RF to predict the 19F chemical shift values of some fluorinated organic compounds.
The number of trees (nt) and the number of randomly selected variables to split each node (m) affect the RF prediction power.
RF model is not required to make a variable selection in advance, and does not suffer from the overfitting problem.
The performances of the RF model were superior to the RBF-PLS.
To the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports yet on the use of RF method to predict the chemical shift.