A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach to Grouping Patients According to their Hospital Length of Stay

In this paper we propose a new approach capable of determining clinically meaningful patient groups from a given dataset of patient spells. We hypothesise that the skewed distribution of length of stay (LOS) observations, often modelled in the past using mixed exponential equations, is composed of s...

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Hauptverfasser:	Abbi, R., El-Darzi, E., Vasilakis, C., Millard, P.
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Computer science Educational institutions Equations Guassian mixture model health care Hospitals length of stay Medical treatment Probability distribution Proposals Statistical distributions Statistics
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