# Tutorials that explain boosting

I'm a newbie trying to learn Boosting. The examples I found online are quite confusing. Is there a simple tutorial somewhere that explains Boosting with an example?

A short note on boosting in the context of decision trees is provided in James et al. "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" p. 321-324. More detailed treatment is in Hastie et al. "The Elements of Statistical Learning" Chapter 10. – Richard Hardy

A working guide to boosted regression trees. Journal of Animal Ecology often used in introductory courses – charles

Machine Learning: Classification

This MOOC on Coursera by University of Washington has a very good and comprehensive explanation of boosting models in Week 5. They have specifically focused on Adaboost and have given a very good and easy to understand explanation of the model and the mathematics behind it. To get a glimpse of how the video is you can look at this pdf
I also found this article to be a very good intuitive explanation of XGBoost.

• I really wish we'd stop focusing on AdaBoost. – Matthew Drury Dec 15 '18 at 22:27
• @MatthewDrury: What would you propose to get the basics of a reference implementation based on your experience? AnyBoost (Mason et al.), LogitBoost (Friedman), something else? – usεr11852 says Reinstate Monic Dec 15 '18 at 23:57
• Regression boosting to minimize least squares, here's an exposition I put together for a job interview: github.com/madrury/boosting-presentation/blob/master/latex/… – Matthew Drury Dec 17 '18 at 19:03

Chris' Bishop Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning has a full chapter ( Chapter 14) which addresses Bagging, boosting etc, def. worth a look, hope this helps!