Dr L K SureshKumar; Ravi Uyyala; K. Srinivasa Chakravarthy; M. Sathya Devi; R. Suresh. AN EXPLAINABLE ENSEMBLE LEARNING FRAMEWORK USING SHAP AND XGBOOST FOR EARLY PREDICTION OF HEART DISEASE FROM CLINICAL AND LIFESTYLE DATA. A Canadian journal of applied mathematics, computer science and statistics 2025, 122, 2541-2554.