It is essential that the growing and pruning sets are separate, because it is misleading to evaluate a rule on the very data that was used to form it: that would lead to serious errors by preferring rules that were overfitted. Usually the training set is split so that two-thirds of ins...
This contribution analyses the relationship between the rule of law and labor productivity growth by businesses within an EU country sample over the period 1998–2005. It finds that the rule of law affects labor productivity growth (LPG) by businesses wi
CO2emissions and the health of forests (because of their impact on the carbon cycle) are indeed quite important, but even so, this framing is a rather crass oversimplification of the issues. Also, the political motivations of some have no bearing on the veracity of the science underpinning ant...