Statistical Data Mining Methods in Predicting Happiness and Habits
Sazan Kamal Sulaiman,
Yousif Sufyan Jghef,
Abdulqadir Ismail Abdullah
et al.
Abstract:The objective of this study is to employ statistical data mining methods and con-duct a survey among young individuals to construct a model capable of forecasting overall happiness. This model will consider over a hundred characteristics, including lifestyle choices and musical tastes. We utilized boosting trees, subset se-lection, and GAM (Generalized Additive Models) techniques. In addition, we created actual test data to validate the model. All available approaches have found many lifestyle variables, inclu… Show more
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