Shaking the trees: Abilities and Capabilities of Regression and Decision Trees for Political Science
When committing to quantitative political science, a researcher has a wealth of methods to choose from. In this paper we compare the established method of analyzing roll call data using W-NOMINATE scores to a data-driven supervised machine learning method: Regression and Decision Trees (RDTs). To do...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2017-01-01
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| Series: | ITM Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20171400009 |