Gradient Boosted Mixed Models: Flexible Estimation of Mean and Variance Components for Clustered Data
梯度提升混合模型:灵活估计聚类数据的均值与方差成分
We introduce a novel way to combine gradient boosting with mixed effects models, whereby the mean and variance components are learned jointly as functions of covariates via likelihood-based gradients. Gradient Boosted Mixed Models (GBMixed) estimates a nonparametric fixed effects function characterizing the overall mean of the response, while also allowing the random effects covariance matrix along with the residual variance to depend on covariates in a flexible manner. We…