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Extends the mlr3 ML framework with spatio-temporal resampling methods to account for the presence of spatiotemporal autocorrelation (STAC) in predictor variables. STAC may cause highly biased performance estimates in cross-validation if ignored.

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References

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Maintainer: Patrick Schratz patrick.schratz@gmail.com (ORCID)

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