Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over time, and second, that mobility or self-reported measures are good proxies for...

Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Analysis -- Chapter 2. Acceleration of large-scale DEA computations using random forest classification -- Chapter 3. The estimation of productive efficiency through machine learning techniques:...

Granular spatial information on the distributions of human population is relevant to a variety of fields like health, economics, and other areas of public sector planning. This paper applies ensemble methods and aims at assessing their applicability to analyzing and forecasting population...