As further motivation Stacking and especially our new
variant StackingC seem to be the best performing ensemble learning schemes – see
Table 3.1 for a comparison against other ensemble learning schemes including
Bagging (Breiman, 1996) and AdaBoostM1 (Freund & Schapire, 1996). However,
other methodologies for comparing classifiers find less or even no differences
between related ensemble learning schemes, see Chapter 6.