Social prediction: a new research paradigm based on machine learning

Abstract Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction. For many years, due to data and computing power constraints, quantitative re...

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Main Authors: Yunsong Chen, Xiaogang Wu, Anning Hu, Guangye He, Guodong Ju
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-09-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-021-00152-z