The American Journal of Managed Care

Risk Classification of Medicare HMO Enrollee Cost Levels Using a Decision-Tree Approach

Objective: To determine whether classification tree techniques used on survey data collected at enrollment from older adults in a Medicare HMO could predict the likelihood of an individual being in a ...
The Bond Buyer

Study finds HQLA classification of munis lowered issuance cost

Jacob Ott, a Ph.D. student in accounting at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, found the initial action in 2015 reduced the borrowing cost of GO bonds by about 5 basis points.
JSTOR Daily

Boosting the Generalized Margin in Cost-Sensitive Multiclass Classification

The boosting algorithm is one of the most successful binary classification techniques due to its relative immunity to overfitting and flexible implementation. Several attempts have been made to extend ...
The Hill

Looming change in worker classification rules will cost small businesses big bucks

A lot of attention has been paid to the tax increases that are part of the Democratic-backed Inflation Reduction Act that’s making its way through Congress. And while these increases are concerning to ...