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Behavioral science and machine learning have rapidly progressed in recent years. As there is growing interest among behavioral scholars to leverage machine learning, we present strategies for how these methods that can be of value to behavioral scientists using examples centered on behavioral research.
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Hagen, L., Uetake, K., Yang, N. et al. How can machine learning aid behavioral marketing research?. Mark Lett 31, 361–370 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-020-09535-7
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