van der Laan Mark J.; C, Polley Eric; Hubbard Alan E. - In: Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 (2007) 1, pp. 1-23
When trying to learn a model for the prediction of an outcome given a set of covariates, a statistician has many estimation procedures in their toolbox. A few examples of these candidate learners are: least squares, least angle regression, random forests, and spline regression. Previous articles...