.. _example_ensemble_plot_gradient_boosting_regression.py:


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Gradient Boosting regression
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Demonstrate Gradient Boosting on the Boston housing dataset.

This example fits a Gradient Boosting model with least squares loss and
500 regression trees of depth 4.



.. image:: images/plot_gradient_boosting_regression_001.png
    :align: center


**Script output**::

  MSE: 6.5814



**Python source code:** :download:`plot_gradient_boosting_regression.py <plot_gradient_boosting_regression.py>`

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**Total running time of the example:**  1.43 seconds
( 0 minutes  1.43 seconds)