Combining classifiers via majority vote
After the short introduction to ensemble learning in the previous section, let's start with a warm-up exercise and implement a simple ensemble classifier for majority voting in Python.
Note
Although the majority voting algorithm that we will discuss in this section also generalizes to multi-class settings via plurality voting, we will use the term majority voting for simplicity, as it is also often done in the literature.
Implementing a simple majority vote classifier
The algorithm that we are going to implement in this section will allow us to combine different classification algorithms associated with individual weights for confidence. Our goal is to build a stronger meta-classifier that balances out the individual ...
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