YuHsuan07/Childhood-Depression-Prediction-in-Malawi

# Childhood Depression Prediction in Malawi ## Overview This project examines the determinants of childhood depression among children in Malawi using survey-based child, maternal, and household variables. ## Methods - Data cleaning and preprocessing - Feature engineering - Logistic Regression - CatBoost - Threshold tuning - SHAP and permutation importance ## My Contribution - Data cleaning - Model checking - Result interpretation ## Data Availability The dataset is not included in this repository due to access and reuse restrictions. ## Repository Structure - `report/`: final report