POLS 4728 · ML & AI

MACHINE LEARNING & AI FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Boosting with regression trees

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Further reading

Susan Athey and Guido W. Imbens (2019), “Machine Learning Methods Economists Should Know About”.

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman (2009), The Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd edition, Chapter 10: “Boosting and Additive Trees.”