2007
Machine Learning Tools for Model Building and Inference:
Partying with Trees, Forests and Boosting Methods
by Carolin Strobl and
Torsten Hothorn
Slides:
The slides as used in Ames are available as 4up PDF.
Software:
Please install packages party
(make sure to install version 0.9-14)
and mboost
as well as
Biobase
and ipred in case you want to try the examples on your own laptop.
Examples:
Part I: Trees and Friends
Part III: Model-based Boosting