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Gradient Boosting

v0.3-24 · Jan 6, 2023 · GPL (>= 2)

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Functional gradient descent algorithm for a variety of convex and non-convex loss functions, for both classical and robust regression and classification problems. See Wang (2011) <doi:10.2202/1557-4679.1304>, Wang (2012) <doi:10.3414/ME11-02-0020>, Wang (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1424635>, Wang (2018) <doi:10.1214/18-EJS1404>.

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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Zhu Wang <zwang145@uthsc.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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Maintainer: ‘Zhu Wang <zwang145@uthsc.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

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new 0.3-24 Mar 9, 2026