adaboost: Perform Classic AdaBoost

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References Examples

Description

This is the implementation of the classic AdaBoost algorithm.

Usage

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adaboost(x, yname, treedepth = 3, event = 1, m = 50)

Arguments

x

A dataframe.

yname

A character vector indicating the column name of the binary target.

treedepth

The maximal depth of the tree.

event

Value that indicates the even in 'y'.

m

The number of trees.

Details

This is the AdaBoost implementation as described on page 258 of the articel.

Value

A list containing: * The predicted values of x. * The confidence of the predictions. * A list with the 'm' trees. * The vector with alpha values. * The column name of 'y'.

References

Joshi, Kumar, Agarwal 2001

Examples

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