Clustering patient length of stay using mixtures of Gaussian models and phase type distributions

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Garg, Lalit ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Meenan, Brian ^a   El Darzi, Elia ^b   Millard, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MODEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MIXED DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL-BASED CLUSTERING; PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTIONS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 70449623523     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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