thehallmarkcard

thehallmarkcard t1_jbxswra wrote

So I think those takeaways are a bit difficult to see in this plot. I can see a very modest increase in wellbeing but it’s hard to know if that increase is even statistically significant. The wide distribution across all incomes is interesting but unsurprising of course in every income bracket there are happy and unhappy people. It’s also hard to accurately compare the income brackets because it looks as though the scale for the violin is the same. Ie we would expect the highest income to be “thin” because it’s the smallest population. Standardizing this would let us better see the distributions in a comparable way. I’m not sure if you even have that information available just a comment generally on the plot because the story is hard to pull out from even a moderate viewing.

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thehallmarkcard t1_ja604kn wrote

So with no other info on your methodology I can’t think of any issue with this. In some sense you’re RNN may be modeling the trend component and the other model measuring the volatility. But that’s hard to say not knowing any more. I am curious if you tried stacking the models directly such that the weights optimize through both models simultaneously. But that depends what kind of models you have and isn’t necessarily better just different.

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thehallmarkcard t1_ja5shr4 wrote

Am I understanding correctly that you train one model from input features to output minimizing the error to the true output then take the predictions of this first model and feed it into the RNN with other features and again minimize the loss to the true output?

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thehallmarkcard t1_j9to1o4 wrote

That’s an overly simplistic perspective. Crime spiked in most jurisdictions regardless of whether the government changed hands. I don’t know definitively if there is statistical evidence politics had some effect but distilling the crime spike to a single factor like this simply inaccurate.

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