Leo Breiman
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Leo Breiman | |
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CART, Bagging, Random forest | |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Homogeneous Processes (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Loève |
| Doctoral students | Adele Cutler |
Leo Breiman (January 27, 1928 – July 5, 2005) was a distinguished
United States National Academy of Sciences
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Breiman's work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and
bootstrap samples. Bootstrap aggregation was given the name bagging by Breiman. Another of Breiman's ensemble approaches is the random forest
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See also
- Shannon–McMillan–Breiman theorem
Further reading
- Leo Breiman obituary, from the University of California, Berkeley
- Richard Olshen "A Conversation with Leo Breiman," Statistical Science Volume 16, Issue 2, 2001
- Breiman, L. (2001). "Statistical Modeling: the Two Cultures". Statistical Science. 16 (3): 199–215. JSTOR 2676681.
External links
- Leo Breiman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Leo Breiman from PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS
- A video record of a Leo Breiman's lecture about one of his machine learning techniques
- Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (with comments and a rejoinder by the author)
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