Predicting firm creation in rural Texas: A multi-model machine learning approach to a complex policy problem

• Mark C. Hand ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark C. Hand, Vivek Shastry, Varun Rai

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

  * E-mail: mark.c.hand@gmail.com

  Affiliations University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-7324

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• Vivek Shastry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark C. Hand, Vivek Shastry, Varun Rai

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

  Affiliation LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0916-1981

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• Varun Rai

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark C. Hand, Vivek Shastry, Varun Rai

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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