Chapter 1. Introduction: what is equity crowdfunding and how can the decision-making process of retail investors be outlined? -- Chapter 2. About entrepreneurial finance and factors affecting crowd-investor preferences -- Chapter 3. Definition and description of the analytical process: a data...

In this paper we survey the most recent advances in supervised machine learning and highdimensional models for time series forecasting. We consider both linear and nonlinear alternatives. Among the linear methods we pay special attention to penalized regressions and ensemble of models. The...