We examined the determinants of the U.S. consumer sentiment by applying linear and nonlinear models. The data are monthly from 2009 to 2019, covering a large set of financial and nonfinancial variables related to the stock market, personal income, confidence, education, environment,...

This paper proposes cost sensitive criteria for constructing classification rules by supervised learning methods. Reinterpreting established loss functions and considering those introduced by Buja, Stuetzle, et al. (2005) and Hand (2009), we identify criteria reflecting different degrees of...