Potential application of machine learning in health outcomes research and some statistical cautions

Value in Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 137-140

  Crown, William H ^a  

^a OPTUM   (United States)

Author keywords

machine learning; outcomes research; treatment effects

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH OUTCOME RESEARCH; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONCOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SMOKE; SOCIAL SECURITY; STRANGULATION; SUFFOCATION; SUICIDE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84924968592     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.12.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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