Before revision:  We use  antibiotic resistance data from a major human pathogen, Sptreptococcus pneumoniae , to demonstrate the applicability of our inference strategy  .
After revision:  We use antibiotic resistance data from a major human pathogen, Sptreptococcus pneumoniae , to demonstrate the applicability of our inference strategy . Conclusions: Boosting is shown to offer a reliable and practically useful tool for inference about heritability .