Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery)
"This book by Seni and Elder provides a timely, concise introduction to this topic. After an intuitive, highly accessible sketch of the key concerns in predictive learning, the book takes the readers through a shortcut into the heart of the popular tree-based ensemble creation strategies, and follows that with a compact yet clear presentation of the developments in the frontiers of statistics, where active attempts are being made to explain and exploit the mysteries of ensembles through conventional statistical theory and methods."