Leo Breiman 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. Wikipedia
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Leo Breiman was born in New York City on January 27, 1928. His parents and he migrated five years later to San Francisco where he began school. During Leo's junior high school years, his family moved again, to Los Angeles. Leo graduated from Roosevelt www.salford-systems.com/press3.php
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