Algorithmic prediction of health-care costs

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1382-1392

  Bertsimas, Dimitris ^a   Bjarnadóttir, Margrét V ^b   Kane, Michael A ^a   Kryder, J Christian ^c   Pandey, Rudra ^c   Vempala, Santosh ^d   Wang, Grant ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c D2Hawkeye   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Claims data; Health care: cost predictions; Prediction algorithms

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; ALGORITHMIC PREDICTIONS; CLAIMS DATA; CLASSIFICATION TREES; COST DATUM; DATA-MINING; HEURISTIC RULES; MEDICAL INFORMATIONS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; REGRESSION METHODS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COSTS; FORECASTING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEURISTIC METHODS; MINING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 61549103139     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0619     Document Type: Article

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