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Gradient Boosting

v0.3-24 · Jan 6, 2023 · GPL (>= 2)
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Functional gradient descent algorithm for a variety of convex and non-convex loss functions, for both classical and robust regression and classification problems. See Wang (2011) <doi:10.2202/1557-4679.1304>, Wang (2012) <doi:10.3414/ME11-02-0020>, Wang (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1424635>, Wang (2018) <doi:10.1214/18-EJS1404>.

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bujar mpath

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mlr

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies rpart foreach doParallel gbm bujar mpath mlr bst

Version History

new 0.3-24 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3-24 ← 0.3-23 diff Jan 5, 2023
updated 0.3-23 ← 0.3-22 diff Nov 8, 2020
updated 0.3-22 ← 0.3-21 diff Oct 18, 2020
updated 0.3-21 ← 0.3-20 diff Jun 1, 2020
updated 0.3-20 ← 0.3-17 diff Apr 30, 2020
updated 0.3-17 ← 0.3-16 diff Feb 26, 2019
updated 0.3-16 ← 0.3-15 diff Jan 15, 2019
updated 0.3-15 ← 0.3-14 diff Jul 22, 2018
updated 0.3-14 ← 0.3-13 diff Sep 20, 2016
updated 0.3-13 ← 0.3-12 diff Feb 27, 2016
updated 0.3-12 ← 0.3-11 diff Jan 3, 2016
updated 0.3-11 ← 0.3-4 diff Dec 18, 2015
updated 0.3-4 ← 0.3-3 diff Jun 23, 2014
updated 0.3-3 ← 0.3-2 diff Sep 11, 2013
updated 0.3-2 ← 0.3-1 diff Jan 16, 2012
updated 0.3-1 ← 0.2 diff Jun 23, 2011
new 0.2 Mar 30, 2011