20.1 Ensembling

  • Aggregating predictions of multiple models together to make one prediction.
  • We’ve already seen some ensembling within 1 type of model:
    • Random forest
    • Bagging & boosting
  • Model stacking allows for aggregating many different types of models (lm + rf + svm, …), to assemble a new model, which generates a new prediction, informed by its members.