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Healthcare length-of-stay estimator

A data mining project predicting how long a patient will stay, from admission-time features.

Type
School
Year
2021
Built with
Python · scikit-learn · Data mining

Built for my data mining class: given the features available at admission, estimate how long a patient will be in the hospital.

Length of stay is a deceptively hard target. The distribution has a long right tail, the extreme cases are the ones that matter operationally, and a model optimised for average error will quietly be worst exactly where the cost is highest.

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