[R] gbm package: relationship between interaction.depth and number of features?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 30-Jul-2009 at 12:36AM +0400, Boris Yangel wrote:

|> Hello. I'm currently stuck with the same "what does interaction.depth really
|> mean" stuff. Did you find out what the right answer is?
|> 

I stand to be corrected, but I think it is one fewer than the number
of leaves in the final tree.  Stumps will have and interaction.depth
of 1 (and have two leaves).  Adding 1 to it will give three leaves.

HTH


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