In various real-world applications, researchers often work with compositional data which appears as proportions, amounts or rates. As a framework for dealing with the unique nature of compositional data, Dirichlet regression models have been introduced. In this article, we propose a novel...

In this paper we discuss the use and potential advantages and disadvantages of machine learning driven models in rental guides. Rental guides are a formal legal instrument in Germany for surveying rents of flats in cities and municipalities, which are today based on regression models or simple...

We evaluate the performance of the penalized vector autoregression (VAR), diffusion index (DI), and regression tree-based ensemble learning models to forecast Singapore's macroeconomy using high-dimensional data. Our dataset consists of 220 monthly time series that capture the economy of...

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Anwendung von statistischem und maschinellem Lernen zur Modellierung der Verlustquote bei Ausfall (LGD). Im Forschungsgebiet der LGD-Modellierung gibt es eine Reihe von Fragen und Problemen, die bisher in der Literatur nicht berücksichtigt wurden. Erstens...