DOC Replaced the deprecated early_stopping parameter with n_iter_no_change. (#12133)

Sriharsha-hatwar · jnothman · commit 0c0a9e840698 · 2018-09-23T07:21:05.000+10:00
diff --git a/sklearn/ensemble/gradient_boosting.py b/sklearn/ensemble/gradient_boosting.py
@@ -2311,7 +2311,7 @@ class GradientBoostingRegressor(BaseGradientBoosting, RegressorMixin):
     validation_fraction : float, optional, default 0.1
         The proportion of training data to set aside as validation set for
         early stopping. Must be between 0 and 1.
-        Only used if early_stopping is True
+        Only used if ``n_iter_no_change`` is set to an integer.
 
         .. versionadded:: 0.20
 
