Leo Breiman

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Leo Breiman (January 27, 1928 – July 7, 2005) 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 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 the random forest.

[edit] External links

• Leo Breiman 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 [1]
• Leo Breiman from PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS
• Mathematics Genealogy