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Challenge: Factors that may influence the fertility desire in China I downloaded the CGSS data version 2015 to take a detailed look into contributors for Chinese birth preference, make some prim...

Inverse of Term Spreads

Macroeconometrics

Dozens of economic research presents the negative correlation between economic cycle and term spreads. Why Term spreads matter? Term spreads is capable of predicting changes in the real economy...

PROPENSITY SCORE

Microeconometrics

Propensity score was first propsed by Rosenbaum and Rubin(1983) Propensity score The concept of Propensity score system was first proposed by Rosenbaum and Rubin. They define the propensity sco...

HW6

Microeconometrics

Back Propagation The basic idea of backpropagation is to adjust the network parameters by calculating the error between the output layer and the expected value, so that the error becomes smaller...

DecisionTree practice

Microeconometrics

Decision Tree makes the choice of the best attribute within the current attribute sets directly. Here I will present detailedly my python code of the Decision tree algorithm. INformation entropy...

Some details about the K-nearest neighbors( KNN )

Microeconometrics

Some details about the K-nearest neighbors( KNN ) KNN was proposed by Hart and Cover, whose original purpose is accomplishing the text classsification work. [1] The basic principle behind this ...

TOOLS FOR MULTICOLLINEARITY--VIF

Microeconometrics

the Variance Inflation Factor( VIF ). What’s the mutlicollinearity? The multicollinearity arises when there is any departure from orthogonality in the set of regressors and get worse as the cor...

KL DIVERGENCE EXPALNATIONS

Microeconometrics

Hey 这是我的第一篇博客。 % Table created by stargazer v.5.2.2 by Marek Hlavac, Harvard University. E-mail: hlavac at fas.harvard.edu % Date and time: 周日, 6月 23, 2019 - 20:00:23 \begin{table}[!htbp] \cen...

KL DIVERGENCE EXPALNATIONS

Microeconometrics

Hey 这是我的第一篇博客。 HW1 Youwen Zhang In this file I will be glad to talk about how does the KL Divergence functions and why its not a proper distance measure. Several detailed mathematical fun...