A pragmatist's guide to using prediction in the social sciences

MD Verhagen - Socius, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Prediction is an underused tool in the social sciences, often for the wrong reasons. Many
social scientists confuse prediction with unnecessarily complicated methods or with narrowly …

Can skills differences explain the gap in track recommendation by socio-economic status?

M Zumbuehl, N Chehber, R Dillingh - Education Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Tracking early in the school career can significantly influence a student's educational path.
Using data from a Dutch cohort study linked with administrative records, we examine the gap …

[PDF][PDF] PREDICTING HIGHER EDUCATION COMPLETION: COMPARING LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

M BOGDANOV - arno.uvt.nl
The role of higher education in social inequality and inequality in access to higher education
has been extensively studied in Social Sciences. The large corpus of the studies discovered …