Chapter 7. Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning
In the previous chapter, we focused on the best practices for tuning and evaluating different models for classification. In this chapter, we will build upon these techniques and explore different methods for constructing a set of classifiers that can often have a better predictive performance than any of its individual members. We will learn how to do the following:
- Make predictions based on majority voting
- Use bagging to reduce overfitting by drawing random combinations of the training set with repetition
- Apply boosting to build powerful models from weak learners that learn from their mistakes
