Hofner, Benjamin; Mayr, Andreas; Robinzonov, Nikolay; … - In: Computational Statistics 29 (2014) 1, pp. 3-35
We provide a detailed hands-on tutorial for the R add-on package <Emphasis Type="Bold">mboost. The package implements boosting for optimizing general risk functions utilizing component-wise (penalized) least squares estimates as base-learners for fitting various kinds of generalized linear and generalized additive...</emphasis>