Machine-Learning Techniques in Economics: New Tools for Predicting Economic Growth - Paperback

by Atin Basuchoudhary (Author), James T. Bang (Author), Tinni Sen (Author)

Offers a guide to how machine learning techniques can improve predictive power in answering economic questions
Provides R codes to help guide the researcher in applying machine learning techniques using the R package

Uses partial dependence plots to tease out non-linear effects of explanatory variables on the dependent variables