Small area estimation of the homeless in Los Angeles: an application of cost-sensitive stochastic gradient boosting

DOI10.1214/10-AOAS328zbMath1202.62178arXiv1011.2890MaRDI QIDQ614137

Brian Kriegler, Richard A. Berk

Publication date: 27 December 2010

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2890

zbMATH Keywords

imputationquantile estimationsmall area estimationcostsboostingstatistical learninghomeless

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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Uses Software

• quantreg
• mboost
• gbm
• GAMBoost
• AdaBoost.MH
• ada
• gbev
• AdaCost

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