Leo Breiman Scientist

Leo Breiman (January 27, 1928 – July 5, 2005) 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 helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Bootstrap aggregation was given the name bagging by Breiman. Another of Breiman's ensemble approaches is the random forest.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 27, 1928
Birth place	New York City , United States
Nationality	United States
Date of death	July 05, 2005
Place of death	Berkeley California , United States
Education	University of California Berkeley
Known for	Decision tree learning Random forest Bootstrap aggregating

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doctoral advisor	Michel Loève
doctoral student	Emperor Renzong of Song Adele Cutler Nong Shang Robert Koyak Samuel Buttrey Smarajit Bose
Field of study	Statistics