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mboost

Model-Based Boosting

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Functional gradient descent algorithm (boosting) for optimizing general risk functions utilizing component-wise (penalised) least squares estimates or regression trees as base-learners for fitting generalized linear, additive and interaction models to potentially high-dimensional data. Models and algorithms are described in doi:10.1214/07-STS242, a hands-on tutorial is available from doi:10.1007/s00180-012-0382-5. The package allows user-specified loss functions and base-learners.

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github.com/boost-R/mboost
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Version 2.9-9
R ≥ 3.2.0
Published 2023-12-07 113 days ago
Needs compilation? yes
License GPL-2
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Maintainer

Maintainer

Torsten Hothorn

Torsten.Hothorn@R-project.org

Authors

Torsten Hothorn

cre / aut

Peter Buehlmann

aut

Thomas Kneib

aut

Matthias Schmid

aut

Benjamin Hofner

aut

Fabian Otto-Sobotka

ctb

Fabian Scheipl

ctb

Andreas Mayr

ctb

Material

NEWS
Reference manual
Package source

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MachineLearning
Survival

Vignettes

Survival Ensembles
mboost
mboost Illustrations
mboost Tutorial

macOS

r-release

arm64

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arm64

r-release

x86_64

r-oldrel

x86_64

Windows

r-devel

x86_64

r-release

x86_64

r-oldrel

x86_64

Old Sources

mboost archive

Depends

R ≥ 3.2.0
methods
stats
parallel
stabs ≥ 0.5-0

Imports

Matrix
survival ≥ 3.2-10
splines
lattice
nnls
quadprog
utils
graphics
grDevices
partykit ≥ 1.2-1

Suggests

TH.data
MASS
fields
BayesX
gbm
mlbench
RColorBrewer
rpart ≥ 4.0-3
randomForest
nnet
testthat ≥ 0.10.0
kangar00

Reverse Depends

expectreg
FDboost
gamboostLSS
gfboost
InvariantCausalPrediction
tbm

Reverse Imports

biospear
bujar
carSurv
censored
DIFboost
EnMCB
gamboostMSM
geoGAM
mgwrsar
visaOTR

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