Links to Material Related to Ch. 8 of Text
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to a book chapter that I wrote on Classification and Regression Trees, Bagging, and Boosting for the Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 24.
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to a presentation on bagging that I prepared for a special topics course I taught in the Summer of 2005.
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to a presentation on random forests that I prepared for a special topics course I taught in the Summer of 2005.
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to a presentation on boosting that I prepared for a special topics course I taught in the Summer of 2005.
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to a presentation on MARS that I prepared for a special topics course I taught in the Summer of 2005.
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to the home page for the Salford Predictive Modeler, which is a suite of software that includes CART, MARS, RandomForests, and TreeNet.
(Note: TreeNet is an implementation of MART, which is covered in ESL, but not ISL.)