JMP 13 Predictive and Specialized Modeling, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Chapter 7 

Boosted Tree

Fit Many Layers of Trees, Each Based on the Previous Layer

The Boosted Tree platform is available only in JMP Pro.

Boosting is the process of building a large, additive decision tree by fitting a sequence of smaller decision trees, called layers. The tree at each layer consists of a small number of splits. The tree is fit based on the residuals of the previous layers, which allows each layer to correct the fit for bad fitting data from the previous layers. The final prediction for an observation is the sum of the predicted residuals for that observation over all the layers.

Figure 7.1 Example of Boosted Tree Layers