Response to Mease and Wyner, evidence contrary to the statistical view of boosting, JMLR 9:131-156, 2008

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 187-194

  Bühlmann, Peter ^a   Yu, Bin ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b 367 Evans Hall #3860 ^*  (United States)

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EID: 41549114046     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
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