Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions

by Giovanni Seni and John Elder

Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment timing to drug discovery, and fraud detection to recommendation systems -- where predictive accuracy is more vital than model interpretability. Ensembles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031007719
• ISBN13: 9783031007712
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 138 Pages