Patient-specific predictive modeling using random forests: An observational study for the critically ill

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lee, Joon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Forecasting; Patient similarity; Predictive analytics; Random forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048308034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.6690     Document Type: Article

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