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: 2.0-0
Depends: R (≥ 2.9.0), methods, stats
Imports: Matrix, survival, splines, lattice
Suggests: multicore, party, ipred, MASS
Published: 2010-02-01
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_2.0-0.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: mboost_1.1-4.tgz
Windows binary: mboost_2.0-0.zip
Reference manual: mboost.pdf
Vignettes: Survival Ensembles
mboost Illustrations
News/ChangeLog:NEWS
Old sources: mboost archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: MLInterfaces
Reverse suggests: Daim, HSAUR2, caret, multcomp, MLInterfaces