“Socialscientists (mostly economists) have identified three classes of ˆY tasks: predictions for policy and theory development, certain procedures for causal inference, and data augmentation [for reviews,see Mullainathan & Spiess (2017) for predictive modeling in economics, Cranmer & Desmarais(2017) for political science, and Yarkoni & Westfall (2017) for psychology].” (Molina and Garip 2019, 32)
References
Molina, Mario, and Filiz Garip. 2019. “Machine Learning for Sociology.” Annu. Rev. Sociol., July.