Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel): "The @Economist making good use of @XGBoost in covid19 mortality predictor application. Main writeup: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/covid-pandemic-mortality-risk-estimator Methods summary: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/11/how-we-built-our-covid-19-risk-estimator #rstats #pydata" | nitter

Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel

12 Mar 2021

The @Economist making good use of @XGBoost in covid19 mortality predictor application. Main writeup: economist.com/graphic-detail… Methods summary: economist.com/graphic-detail… #rstats #pydata

How we built our covid-19 risk estimator

A foray into diagnostic codes, sample reweighting and gradient-boosted trees

Mar 12, 2021 · 4:01 AM UTC

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel

12 Mar 2021

My bad: correct handle is @TheEconomist Choice quotes below in screenshot. The write-up is *excellent*. Recommend.

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