Forecasting Costa Rican inflation with machine learning methods

We present a first assessment of the predictive ability of machine learning methods for inflation forecasting in Costa Rica. We compute forecasts using two variants of k-nearest neighbors, random forests, extreme gradient boosting and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. We evaluate their proper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Central Banking
Subjects:
E31
C45
C49
C53
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666143820300120