Book

Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

This book introduces you to the concept of ensemble learning and demonstrates how different machine learning algorithms can be combined to build efficient machine learning models. Use R to implement the popular trilogy of ensemble techniques, i.e. bagging, random forest and boosting, to build faster and more accurate machine learning models.

Offered byPackt Logo

Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

12h32m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for you if you are a data scientist or machine learning developer who wants to implement machine learning techniques by building ensemble models with the power of R. You will learn how to combine different machine learning algorithms to perform efficient data processing. Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques and programming knowledge of R would be an added advantage.

Book content

chapters 12h32m total length

Introduction to Ensemble Techniques

Bootstrapping

Bagging

Random Forests

The Bare Bones Boosting Algorithms

Boosting Refinements

The General Ensemble Technique

Ensemble Diagnostics

Ensembling Regression Models

Ensembling Survival Models

Ensembling Time Series Models

What's Next?

Related Resources

Access Ready-to-Use Books for Free!

Get instant access to a library of pre-built books—free trial, no credit card required. Start training your team in minutes!

No credit card required