Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063323

Zusammenfassung

This project deals with a completely new area of data science: estimating Bayesian models by boosting methods, a statistical learning approach. The philosophies of both fields seem contradictory at first glance. This also leads to the current situation of statistical methods research being strictly divided and hardly any researcher working in both worlds. The Bayesian community has grown immensely in the last decades and rendered possible an extreme amount of new types of models. It however has the reputation of producing its interesting results very slowly and, even when using selecti...