XGBoost is an open source machine learning library that implements optimized distributed gradient boosting algorithms. XGBoost uses parallel processing for fast performance, handles missing values ...

In this paper I assess the ability of econometric and machine learning techniques to predict fiscal crises out of sample. I show that the econometric approaches used in many policy applications cannot ...

Supervised machine learning, or supervised learning for short, includes classification algorithms such as neural networks, gradient boosting, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines ...