Social Science

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[2] viXra:2111.0118 [pdf] submitted on 2021-11-25 23:28:43

Using Machine Learning to Predict Poverty Status in Costa Rican Households

Authors: Ji Yoon Kim
Comments: 13 Pages.

This study presents two supervised multiclassification machine learning models to predict the poverty status of Costa Rican households as a way to support government and business sectors make decisions in a rapidly changing social and economic environment. Using the Costa Rican household dataset collected via the proxy means test conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank, Random Forest and Gradient Boosted Trees achieved F1 scores of 64.9% and 68.4%, respectively. This study also reveals that education has the greatest impact on predicting poverty status.
Category: Social Science

[1] viXra:2111.0109 [pdf] submitted on 2021-11-22 17:32:48

Sisyphus in Hades

Authors: Clark M. Thomas
Comments: 7 Pages.

The somewhat mythological King Sisyphus of Corinth in Greece was the subject of a unique punishment issued by an angry Zeus. Sisyphus was condemned to roll a giant rock up a mountain in Hades. That rock would then roll all the way back down just before they reached the top, requiring infinite repetitions without any reward. That’s the skeleton of this story, but there is much more within his mythological life relevant to modern science and philosophy.
Category: Social Science