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A family of algorithms combining weakly predictive models into a strongly predictive model. The most common approach is called gradient boosting, and the most commonly used weak models are classification/regression trees.

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GBM: Predict the response variable measured in {0,20}

I need to predict the response that has values in {0,20}. Should it be used as a factor or as a numeric value? How does it influence on the prediction error? I am using GBM with the Gaussian distribu …
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Change settings in the prediction model (caret package) [closed]

"The final values used for the model were n.trees = 300, interaction.depth = 9 and shrinkage = 0.1" How can I manually change these settings in order to make my predictions with different number of boosting
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