It seems that using the seed 42 with xgboost 1.7.6 with the sample data used in section 8.3 returns a score of
0.7535911602209945
which is different from the value on the book. Actually, using the value 39 for the seed replicates the value of the book of
0.7447513812154696
The default hyperparameters are mostly set to None in 1.7.6, but that does not seem to affect the score.
It seems that using the seed 42 with xgboost 1.7.6 with the sample data used in section 8.3 returns a score of
0.7535911602209945which is different from the value on the book. Actually, using the value 39 for the seed replicates the value of the book of0.7447513812154696The default hyperparameters are mostly set to None in 1.7.6, but that does not seem to affect the score.