Boosted regression (boosting): An introductory tutorial and a Stata plugin

Stata Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 330-354

  Schonlau, Matthias ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Boost; Boosted regression; Boosting; Data mining; St0087

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646517317     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0500500304     Document Type: Article

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