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Discussions of boosting papers, and rejoinders

Peter L. Bartlett, Peter J. Bickel, Peter Bühlmann, Yoav Freund, Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, Wenxin Jiang, Michael J. Jordan, Vladimir Koltchinskii, Gábor Lugosi, Jon D. McAuliffe, Ya'acov Ritov, Saharan Rosset, Robert E. Schapire, Robert Tibshirani, Nicolas Vayatis, Bin Yu, Tong Zhang, and Ji Zhu
Source: Ann. Statist. Volume 32, Number 1 (2004), 85-134.

Abstract

Discussions of: "Process consistency for AdaBoost" [Ann. Statist. 32 (2004), no. 1, 13-29] by W. Jiang; "On the Bayes-risk consistency of regularized boosting methods" [ibid., 30-55] by G. Lugosi and N. Vayatis; and "Statistical behavior and consistency of classification methods based on convex risk minimization" [ibid., 56-85] by T. Zhang. Includes rejoinders by the authors.

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Primary Subjects: 62H30
Secondary Subjects: 68T05
Keywords: boosting
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Permanent link to this document: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1105988581
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR2051051
Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/aos/1105988581


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The Annals of Statistics

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