Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data

Muchlinski, David, Siroky, David, He, Jingrui, Kocher, Matthew·2016·Political Analysis
DOI 10.1093/pan/mpv024

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