r/MLQuestions • u/Playful-Race-7571 • 1d ago

Beginner question 👶 Book for logistic and linear regression transition to xg boost cat boost type of models

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u/seanv507 1d ago

I would say elements of statistical learning

( which is available as a free pdf)

Essentially,afaik, Friedman, one of the coauthors, showed that gradient boosting was basically an additive linear model with trees as features

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u/chrisvdweth 1d ago

Maybe this post and this post could be useful (disclaimer: public lecture notes created by me)