Which Method Predicts Recidivism Best?: A Comparison of Statistical, Machine Learning and Data Mining Predictive Models
| Autor: | N. Tollenaar, P.G.M. Van der Heijden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
Economics and Econometrics education.field_of_study Recidivism business.industry Population Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Machine learning computer.software_genre Logistic regression Linear discriminant analysis Injury prevention Conviction Artificial intelligence Data mining Statistics Probability and Uncertainty education business Psychology computer Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 176:565-584 |
| ISSN: | 1467-985X 0964-1998 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2012.01056.x |
| Popis: | Summary Using criminal population conviction histories of recent offenders, prediction mod els are developed that predict three types of criminal recidivism: general recidivism, violent recidivism and sexual recidivism. The research question is whether prediction techniques from modern statistics, data mining and machine learning provide an improvement in predictive performance over classical statistical methods, namely logistic regression and linear discrim inant analysis. These models are compared on a large selection of performance measures. Results indicate that classical methods do equally well as or better than their modern counterparts. The predictive performance of the various techniques differs only slightly for general and violent recidivism, whereas differences are larger for sexual recidivism. For the general and violent recidivism data we present the results of logistic regression and for sexual recidivism of linear discriminant analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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