Predicting residential demand: applying random forest to predict housing demand in Cape Town

The literature shows that Random Forest is a suitable technique to predict a target variable for a household with completely unseen characteristics. The models produced in this paper show that the characteristics of a household can be used to predict the Type of Dwelling, the Tenure and the Number o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dyer, Ross
Other Authors: McGaffin, Robert
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29602