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: 1.0-4
Depends: R (≥ 2.4.0), methods, modeltools (≥ 0.2.10), party (≥ 0.9-10), splines
Suggests: mlbench, ipred
Date: 2008-11-07
Author: Torsten Hothorn, Peter Buhlmann, 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_1.0-4.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: mboost_1.0-4.tgz
Windows binary: mboost_1.0-4.zip
Reference manual: mboost.pdf
Vignettes: Survival Ensembles
mboost Illustrations
Old sources: mboost archive