Introduction to Boosted Regression Trees

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Teaching: 45 min
Exercises: 0 min

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Overview

• BRT Basics
• A Brief (Likely Incomplete) History of BRT Analysis in Shark Research
• Using BRTs with Acoustic Telemetry Data
• BRT Analysis in R using gbm.auto
• Case Study (and Shameless Paper Promotion): NW Atlantic Dusky Sharks

(Speaker: Dr. Charles Bangley, Charles.Bangley@dal.ca)

• Powerpoint

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