[R] good boosting tutorial and package in R?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Michael<comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could you please give me some pointers about what's the best boosting
> package in R currently?
>
> in terms of classification accuracy?
>
> And any pointers about tutorials and study-materials to curb the
> learning curve will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you!
>
> p.s. Does anybody happen to know Boosting implemented in other
> language such as Matlab?
>
> Are they good in terms of accuracy?
>
> What are the other competing tools for classification?
>
> Any literature paper/tutorial on comparisons?
>
> Thank you!
>
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