Leo Breiman
Statistician, Academic
1928 – 2005
Who was Leo Breiman?
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science.
Breiman's work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Bootstrap aggregation was given the name bagging by Breiman. Another of Breiman's ensemble approaches is the random forest.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1928
New York City - Also known as
- Брейман, Лео
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Jul 5, 2005
Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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