Machine learning for package users with R (6): Xgboost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting)
As far as I've known, Xgboost is the most successful machine learning classifier in several competitions in machine learning, e.g. Kaggle or KDD cups. Indeed the team winning Higgs-Boson competition used Xgboost and below is their code release. Code release - Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge …
