Thanks, it really helps!
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Ridgeway, Greg <gr...@rand.org> wrote: > See friedman's paper "stochastic gradient boosting" > > Greg > > ------------------------------ > *From*: Changbin Du > *To*: Ridgeway, Greg > *Cc*: r-help@r-project.org > *Sent*: Sat May 01 14:20:23 2010 > *Subject*: bag.fraction in gbm package > Hi, Dear Greg, > > Sorry to bother you again. > > I have several questions about the 'gbm' package. > > if the train.fraction is less than 1 (ie. 0.5) , then the* first* 50% will > be used to fit the model, the other 50% can be used to estimate the > performance. > > if bag.fraction is 0.5, then gbm use the* random* 50% of the data to fit > the model, and the other 50% data is used to estimate the predictive > performance. > > Is my understanding for train.fraction and bag.fraction right? if not,what > is the difference? > > can I set both fraction=1, and only use the cross.validation to select the > iterations? > > Thanks so much! > > -- > Sincerely, > Changbin > -- > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended...{{dropped:24}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.