BART: Bayesian additive regression trees

DOI10.1214/09-aoas285zbMath1189.62066arXiv0806.3286MaRDI QIDQ65651

Edward I. George, Hugh A. Chipman, Robert E. McCulloch, Robert E. McCulloch, Hugh A. Chipman, Edward I. George

Publication date: 1 March 2010

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3286

zbMATH Keywords

classification; probit model; nonparametric regression; variable selection; CART; boosting; weak learner; MCMC; ensemble; Bayesian backfitting; random basis; regularizatio; sum-of-trees model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G08: Nonparametric regression and quantile regression

62H30: Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)

62F15: Bayesian inference

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