Discussion on the Paper From Start to Finish: a Framework for the Production of small area official statistics” by Tzavidis et al.,

Mathematics

• Official Statistics 100%
• Machine Learning 71%
• Small Area Estimation 60%
• Specification 38%
• Framework 37%
• Classification and Regression Trees 35%
• Random Forest 31%
• Unbalanced Data 31%
• Boosting 29%
• Stochastic Gradient 28%
• Missing Values 25%
• Ordinary Least Squares 25%
• Iterative Process 23%
• Model 21%
• Outlier 21%
• Predictors 20%
• Target 18%
• Evaluation 15%
• Interaction 15%
• Modeling 14%
• Relationships 13%

Business & Economics

• Machine Learning 85%
• Official Statistics 82%
• Small Area Estimation 68%
• Classification and Regression Trees 32%
• Missing Values 30%
• Outliers 29%
• Learning Methods 26%
• Nonlinear Relationships 24%
• Gradient 23%
• Predictors 23%
• Boosting 22%
• Ordinary Least Squares 20%
• Modeling 12%
• Interaction 11%
• Evaluation 11%

Social Sciences

• official statistics 80%
• learning method 12%
• learning 8%
• regression 8%
• interaction 6%
• evaluation 5%