- Leo Breiman
Leo Breiman (
January 27 1928 –July 7 2005 ) was a distinguishedstatistician at theUniversity 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 bridged the gap between statisticians and computer scientists, particularly in the field of
machine learning . Perhaps 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 therandom forest .External links
* Leo Breiman [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/07/07_breiman.shtml obituary] , from the University of California, Berkeley
* Richard Olshen "A Conversaton with Leo Breiman," Statistical Science Volume 16, Issue 2, 2001 accessible through Project Euclid [http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Journal?authority=euclid.ss&issue=1009213285]
* [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/breiman.gifLeo Breiman] from [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/welcome.htm PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=32157 Mathematics Genealogy]
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