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I have a regression random forest that is targeting a continuous variable (sales amount). Is there any configuration for the classifier that allows me to set a maximum and a minimum for the target?
Example: Predicted sales_amount should be between $10000$ and $20000$.
Random Forest Regressor doesn't have such an option, usually, if you have enough data and a correct training process, predictions should be in an acceptable range. Of course, they might go above and beyond your range, but the error might be still acceptable.
If you are looking for a model that is able to utilize prediction boundaries, I suggest you look at Facebook Prophet as it may be useful for your problem at hand. Python Prophet Quick Start
For range-predictions, you can specify "Forecasting Growth":
When forecasting growth, there is usually some maximum achievable point: total market size, total population size, etc. This is called the carrying capacity, and the forecast should saturate at this point.
Here is a link for this part Forecasting Growth and Saturating Minimum
And another note - Prophet proves to be quite useful in predicting any seasonal related time series, so you can achieve even better performance predicting sales compared to Random Forest.
If in your training data you don't have any observations that are less than 10,000 and greater than 20,000, then Random Forest will never make a prediction outside of this bound. Therefore, if you eliminate these observations from the training data you will get the desired effect.
I am only suggesting this as an option, I am not familiar with your problem, so I don't know if this is a good approach or not.
According to this answer https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/205771/217009 You model prediction will always in between the training target value.Unless your training have value less than 20,000 you don't need to worry.
In this example output will not cross the input target value
In your case i assume that the training data have target value greater than 20,000.But still you want the output target less than 20,000.Two solutions are available:
