Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

Statistical/machine learning models

The previous section introduced a host of problems through real datasets, and we will now discuss some standard model variants that are useful for dealing with such problems. First, we set up the required mathematical framework.

Suppose that we have n independent pairs of observations, , where denotes the random variable of interest, also known as the dependent variable, regress and, endogenous variable, and so on. is the associated vector of explanatory variables, or independent/exogenous variables. The explanatory ...