Analysis of healthcare coverage: A data mining approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 995-1003

  Delen, Dursun ^a   Fuller, Christie ^a   McCann, Charles ^a   Ray, Deepa ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Decision trees; Healthcare coverage; Neural networks; Prediction

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; HEALTHCARE COVERAGE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 56349092023     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.10.041     Document Type: Article

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