Building Better Models: Prediction, Replication, and Machine Learning in the Social Sciences

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 659, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-62

  Hindman, Matthew ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; data science; ensemble learning; machine learning; penalized regression; predictive modeling; the Lasso

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927130377     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215570279     Document Type: Article

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