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Record W4409852069 · doi:10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100657

Quantitative insights into the Winnipeg rental sector: A data-driven analytical approach using geographic and property metrics

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Lahiru Wickramasinghe, Aditya Jain

Bibliographic record

VenueMachine Learning with Applications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing Market and Economics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
FundersMitacs
KeywordsRentingProperty (philosophy)Residential propertyProperty valueBusinessEconometricsData scienceComputer scienceRegional scienceGeographyEngineeringEconomicsCivil engineeringFinanceReal estate

Abstract

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In the dynamic rental market of Winnipeg, accurately predicting rental property prices is essential for a wide range of stakeholders, including landlords, tenants, prospective renters, property managers, and urban planners. Traditional rental market assessments often fail to incorporate advanced analytical techniques, leading to less precise price forecasts and hindering strategic decision-making. This paper aims to bridge this gap by developing sophisticated predictive models using a dataset that contains rental property information as well as demographic and socio-economic information in Winnipeg. This paper highlights the importance of integrating advanced computational methods in rental market analysis, which can significantly benefit economic planning and personal investment decisions in urban environments. By utilizing both machine learning and statistical learning methods, this paper seeks to improve the accuracy of rental price estimations across different neighborhoods in Winnipeg.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.635
Threshold uncertainty score0.725

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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