Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the gradient boosting regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to ...

Gradient-boosted trees may contain a set of classification or regression trees. Classification trees are used for discrete values (e.g. cat or dog). Regression trees are used for continuous values ...

Linear Regression Gradient Descent is an algorithm we use to minimize the cost function value, so as to fit our model to the data set. Gradient Descent finds the minima of cost function, ...

Jianqiang C. Wang, Trevor Hastie, Boosted Varying-Coefficient Regression Models for Product Demand Prediction, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 2014), pp.