Homework 8. Stat 540 Spring 1999.

Deliverables:

None, for this assignment, read 2 papers.

1. Freund & Schapire paper. Concentrate on section 4. and in particular the way that the problem is set up together with the algorithm. From the problem formulation (first 2 paragraphs of section 4), identify the way in which the machine learning paradigm is irreconcilable with a logistic regression problem.

2. Friedman, J., Hastie, T. and Tibshirani, R. "Additive Logistic Regression: a Statistical View of Boosting". Tech. report July 23, 1998.