Zhang, Junni L.; Härdle, Wolfgang K. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 54 (2010) 5, pp. 1197-1205
We propose a new nonlinear classification method based on a Bayesian "sum-of-trees" model, the Bayesian Additive Classification Tree (BACT), which extends the Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (BART) method into the classification context. Like BART, the BACT is a Bayesian nonparametric additive...