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Generalized Boosted Regression Models

v2.2.3 · Jan 22, 2026 · GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE
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An implementation of extensions to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost algorithm and Friedman's gradient boosting machine. Includes regression methods for least squares, absolute loss, t-distribution loss, quantile regression, logistic, multinomial logistic, Poisson, Cox proportional hazards partial likelihood, AdaBoost exponential loss, Huberized hinge loss, and Learning to Rank measures (LambdaMart). Originally developed by Greg Ridgeway. Newer version available at github.com/gbm-developers/gbm3.

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Reverse Dependencies (96)

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LogisticEnsembles NumericEnsembles gbm2sas mma

imports

ARTtransfer CRE CoxAIPW E2E EZtune EpiSemble GB5mcPred IPMRF MEGB OpEnHiMR PSweight ROOT RSDA SDMtune SSDM WaveletGBM aihuman biomod2 bonsaiforest bst bujar crispRdesignR crossurr ecospat enmSdmX evalITR gbm.auto gbts i3pack lilikoi metaEnsembleR mob mvGPS nadir paths pomodoro precmed qeML ranktreeEnsemble regressoR rgnoisefilt scorecardModelUtils spm spm2 tidylearn traineR tsensembler twang twangContinuous twangMediation varPro visualpred xgrove

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BiodiversityR DALEXtra DeepLearningCausal MachineShop MatchIt OpEnCAST SuperLearner SuperSurv WeightIt caretEnsemble cdgd ciu cobalt condvis2 countSTAR cramR dismo dynamicSDM fairmodels imputeR insight mboost mlr mpae npcs optweight pdp plotmo pminternal pmml posterior psborrow2 rSAFE riskRegression shapr subsemble survex vivid writeAlizer

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies lattice survival LogisticEnsembles NumericEnsembles gbm2sas mma ARTtransfer CRE CoxAIPW E2E EZtune EpiSemble GB5mcPred IPMRF MEGB OpEnHiMR PSweight +81 more reverse deps gbm

Version History

new 2.2.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.2.3 ← 2.2.2 diff Jan 21, 2026
updated 2.2.2 ← 2.1.9 diff Jun 27, 2024
updated 2.1.9 ← 2.1.8.1 diff Jan 9, 2024
updated 2.1.8.1 ← 2.1.8 diff Aug 10, 2022
updated 2.1.8 ← 2.1.5 diff Jul 14, 2020
updated 2.1.5 ← 2.1.4 diff Jan 13, 2019
updated 2.1.4 ← 2.1.3 diff Sep 15, 2018
updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Mar 20, 2017
updated 2.1.3 ← 2.1.2 diff Mar 20, 2017
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1 diff Mar 10, 2015
updated 2.1 ← 2.0-8 diff May 9, 2013
updated 2.0-8 ← 1.6-3.2 diff Jan 17, 2013
updated 1.6-3.2 ← 2.0-5 diff Dec 8, 2012
updated 2.0-5 ← 1.6-3.1 diff Dec 7, 2012
updated 1.6-3.1 ← 1.6-3 diff May 6, 2010
updated 1.6-3 ← 1.6-2 diff Aug 3, 2007
updated 1.6-2 ← 1.6-1 diff Jun 22, 2007
updated 1.6-1 ← 1.5-7 diff Jun 13, 2007
updated 1.5-7 ← 1.5-5 diff Apr 17, 2006