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Aggregation and Ensembles: Principled Combinations of Data

Jacob M. Montgomery, Florian Hollenbach, Michael D. Ward

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PS: Political Science and Politics, 46(1), 43-44
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2013
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AI/Machine Learning Bayesian Statistics
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