Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

• Peter M. Yaworsky ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.yaworsky@utah.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Global Change and Sustainability Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, Ogden, Utah, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-9569

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• Kenneth B. Vernon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Global Change and Sustainability Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Jerry D. Spangler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, Ogden, Utah, United States of America

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• Simon C. Brewer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Change and Sustainability Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Brian F. Codding

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Global Change and Sustainability Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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