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Bagging predictors

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Breiman, Leo·1996·Machine Learning

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  • BA method was proposed by Breiman et al. and is often used in BCI.

    “BA method was proposed by Breiman et al. [30] and is often used in BCI [31,32].”
  • Methods that quantify uncertainty can be broadly classified into Bayesian approaches and Frequentist approaches.

    “These methods can be broadly classified into two categories: Bayesian approaches [40,90,106] and Frequentist, approaches [14,70,113]”

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    The Introduction describes bagging and mentions a separate Bayesian approach, but does not classify uncertainty-quantification methods as Bayesian or Frequentist. Section 6.1 discusses class-probability estimates, not that proposed classification. Searches for uncertainty quantification and frequentist approaches found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)

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  • Feature selection offers advantages including cost reduction in data acquisition and classification model training, decreased model size, enhanced classification performance, and potentially improved interpretability.

    “As discussed earlier, feature selection offers several advantages, including cost reduction in data acquisition and classification model training, decreased model size, enhanced classification performance, and potentially improved inter- [53]].”

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Authors
Breiman, L.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Breiman, Leo
Venue
Machine Learning
Published
1996-08
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
123-140
ISSN
  • 0885-6125 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-0565
OpenAlex
W4212883601
Cited by
16,325
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 292 · 2025: 961 · 2024: 1566 · 2023: 1675 · 2022: 1623 · 2021: 1554 · 2020: 1186 · 2019: 1006 · 2018: 762 · 2017: 712 · 2016: 590 · 2015: 577 · 2014: 527 · 2013: 470 · 2012: 404
FWCI
24.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Machine Learning (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Inference
Keywords
bagging, ensemble learning, prediction accuracy, classification trees, regression trees, subset selection, linear regression, plurality voting, numerical prediction

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