mboost: Model-Based Boosting

Functional gradient descent algorithms (boosting) for optimizing general loss functions utilizing componentwise least squares, either of parametric linear form or smoothing splines, or regression trees as base learners for fitting generalized linear, additive and interaction models to potentially high-dimensional data.

Version: 1.0-1
Depends: R (≥ 2.4.0), methods, modeltools (≥ 0.2.10), party (≥ 0.9-10), splines
Suggests: mlbench, ipred, Biobase
Date: $Date: 2007/07/08 15:52:23 $
Author: Torsten Hothorn and Peter Buhlmann with contributions by Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid
Maintainer: Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn at R-project.org>
License: GPL-2
In views: MachineLearning
CRAN checks: mboost results

Downloads:

Package source: mboost_1.0-1.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: mboost_1.0-1.tgz
Windows binary: mboost_1.0-1.zip
Reference manual: mboost.pdf
Vignettes: Survival Ensembles
mboost Illustrations
Old sources: mboost archive