Evolving forecasting classifications and applications in health forecasting

International Journal of General Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 381-389

  Soyiri, Ireneous N ^a,b   Reidpath, Daniel D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cross validation; Electronic health records; Health data; Health forecast; Method; Strengths and limitations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CAUSAL MODELING; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FORECASTING; HEALTH FORECASTING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84868289925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJGM.S31079     Document Type: Review

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