mboost: Model-Based Boosting

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.

Version: 2.1-1
Depends: R (≥ 2.10.0), methods, stats
Imports: Matrix, survival, splines, lattice
Suggests: multicore, party (≥ 0.9-9993), ipred, MASS, fields, BayesX, gbm
Published: 2011-11-29
Author: Torsten Hothorn, Peter Buehlmann, Thomas Kneib, Matthias Schmid and Benjamin Hofner
Maintainer: Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn at R-project.org>
License: GPL-2
In views: MachineLearning, Survival
CRAN checks: mboost results

Downloads:

Package source: mboost_2.1-1.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: mboost_2.1-1.tgz
Windows binary: mboost_2.1-1.zip
Reference manual: mboost.pdf
Vignettes: Survival Ensembles
mboost
mboost Illustrations
News/ChangeLog:NEWS
Old sources: mboost archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: bujar, expectreg, gamboostLSS, globalboosttest, stratasphere
Reverse suggests: caret, catdata, Daim, HSAUR2, multcomp, spikeSlabGAM