Prediction of transfers to tertiary care and hospital mortality: A gradient boosting decision tree approach

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Xie, Jianjun ^a   Coggeshall, Stephen ^a  

^a ID Analytics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Ensemble; Health care; Modeling

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DIAGNOSIS; FORECASTING; HOSPITALS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; STATISTICAL TESTS;

'CURRENT; ENSEMBLE; GRADIENT BOOSTING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL CONDITIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MODELING; OPERATION RESEARCH; TERTIARY CARES; TRAINING AND TESTING;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 78649968386     PISSN: 19321872     EISSN: 19321864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sam.10079     Document Type: Article

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