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SUBMITTER: Thomas J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555005 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thomas Janek J Hepp Tobias T Mayr Andreas A Bischl Bernd B
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine 20170731
We present a new variable selection method based on model-based gradient boosting and randomly permuted variables. Model-based boosting is a tool to fit a statistical model while performing variable selection at the same time. A drawback of the fitting lies in the need of multiple model fits on slightly altered data (e.g., cross-validation or bootstrap) to find the optimal number of boosting iterations and prevent overfitting. In our proposed approach, we augment the data set with randomly permu ...[more]