[HTML][HTML] Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning

X Shu, Y Ye - Social Science Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery and data mining emerged from a
necessity of big data requiring new analytical methods beyond the traditional statistical …

Digital and computational demography

R Kashyap, RG Rinderknecht… - … handbook on digital …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Like demography more generally, digital and computational demography is concerned with
measuring populations and demographic processes of fertility, mortality, and migration, as …

A data-driven approach shows that individuals' characteristics are more important than their networks in predicting fertility preferences

G Stulp, L Top, X Xu, E Sivak - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
People's networks are considered key in explaining fertility outcomes—whether people want
and have children. Existing research on social influences on fertility is limited because data …

Trends in Women's Educational Advantage and Divorce in East and West Germany

F Mazzeo, C Schwartz… - Comparative …, 2024 - comparativepopulationstudies.de
Couples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be
more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and place …

Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”

P Blossfeld, S Scherer, W Uunk - Comparative …, 2024 - comparativepopulationstudies.de
Recent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of
Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a …

Predicting the HIV/AIDS Knowledge among the Adolescent and Young Adult Population in Peru: Application of Quasi-Binomial Logistic Regression and Machine …

A Aybar-Flores, A Talavera… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inadequate knowledge is one of the principal obstacles for preventing HIV/AIDS spread.
Worldwide, it is reported that adolescents and young people have a higher vulnerability of …

Prosocial activity in later life: are informal help and care associated with volunteering and charity?

AO Tanskanen, H Hämäläinen, B Arpino… - Ageing & …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Older adults' engagement in various prosocial activities is a salient question in present-day
societies that aim to promote active ageing. However, there are only a few studies focusing …

Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

F Luppi, B Arpino, A Rosina - Journal of Family Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study accounts for the heterogeneous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on
fertility plans and behaviours, by focusing on the motivations for suspended pre-Covid …

Why machines matter for survey and social science researchers: Exploring applications of machine learning methods for design, data collection, and analysis

TD Buskirk, A Kirchner - Big data meets survey science: A …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter explores how techniques from data science, known collectively as machine
learning methods (MLMs), can be leveraged in each phase of the survey research process …

Make It or Break It? Pregnancy Scares and Romantic Relationship Dissolution

L Newmyer, ST Yabiku - Demography, 2025 - read.dukeupress.edu
Young adult romantic relationships have undergone significant changes in recent decades,
resulting in such distinct demographic trends as rising rates of relationship dissolution …