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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Obster, Fabian
• Heumann, Christian
• Bohle, Heidi
• Pechan, Paul

Titel

Using interpretable boosting algorithms for modeling environmental and agricultural data

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2023-08, Vol.13 (1), p.12767-12767, Article 12767

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We describe how interpretable boosting algorithms based on ridge-regularized generalized linear models can be used to analyze high-dimensional environmental data. We illustrate this by using environmental, social, human and biophysical data to predict the financial vulnerability of farmers in Chile and Tunisia against climate hazards. We show how group structures can be considered and how interactions can be found in high-dimensional datasets using a novel 2-step boosting approach. The advantages and efficacy of the proposed method are shown and discussed. Results indicate that the presence of interaction effects only improves predictive power when included in two-step boosting. The most important variable in predicting all types of vulnerabilities are natural assets. Other important variables are the type of irrigation, economic assets and the presence of crop damage of near farms.