mboost (2.0-3)

Model-Based Boosting.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mboost

Functional gradient descent algorithm (boosting) for optimizing general risk functions utilizing component-wise (penalised) least squares estimates or regression trees as base-learners for fitting generalized linear, additive and interaction models to potentially high-dimensional data.

Maintainer: Torsten Hothorn
Author(s): Torsten Hothorn, Peter Buehlmann, Thomas Kneib, Matthias Schmid and Benjamin Hofner

License: GPL-2

Uses: lattice, Matrix, survival, ipred, party, multicore, MASS
Reverse depends: bujar, expectreg, gamboostLSS, globalboosttest, stratasphere
Reverse suggests: caret, Daim, HSAUR2, multcomp, spikeSlabGAM

Released about 3 years ago.