[srean]

I am more ML than stats. BTW Brieman believed the same for Boosting. Later he got a little unsure. You will find this in his writings on Boosting

[davidsrosenberg]

Interesting -- if you've got a link, please post it.

[srean]

You can take a look at his technical reports from 2001 onwards, lot of very interesting material, lot of back forth between Freund, Schapire and Brieman in those. The reports continue to be hosted on Brieman's home page.