Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Levin, Laurence M.; Tausanovitch, … - Economics Department, Wesleyan University - 2014
Economists’ wariness of data mining may be misplaced, even in cases where economic theory provides a well-specified model for estimation. We discuss how new data mining/ensemble modeling software, for example the program TreeNet, can be used to create predictive models. We then show how for a...