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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="contributor" qualifier="advisor">Chagwiza, Wilbert</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="contributor" qualifier="author">Molepo, Mashaka Ruth</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="abstract" lang="en_ZA">few economic downturns were predicted months in advance. This research has the ability&#xd;
to give the best performing models to assist businesses in navigating prior recession periods.&#xd;
The study address the subject of identifying the most important variables to improve the overall&#xd;
performance of the algorithm that would effectively predict recessions. The primary aim&#xd;
of this study was to improve economic recession prediction using machine learning (ML)&#xd;
techniques by developing an inch-perfect and efficient prediction model in order to avoid&#xd;
greater government deficits, growing inequality, significantly decreased income, and higher&#xd;
unemployment. The study objective was to establish the relevant method for addressing&#xd;
imbalance data with suitable features selection strategy to enhance the performance of the&#xd;
machine learning algorithm developed. Furthermore, artificial neural network(ANN) and&#xd;
Random Forest (RF) were used in predicting economic recession using ML techniques. This&#xd;
study would not have been possible without the publicly available data from the online open&#xd;
source Kaggle, which provided ordinal categorical data for the specific data utilized. The&#xd;
major findings of this study were that the ML algorithm RF performed better at recession&#xd;
prediction than its rival ANN. Due to the fact that two ML algorithms in this research were&#xd;
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