An incremental EM-based learning approach for on-line prediction of hospital resource utilization

Objective: Inpatient length of stay (LOS) is an important measure of hospital activity, health care resource consumption, and patient acuity. This research work aims at developing an incremental expectation maximization (EM) based learning approach on mixture of experts (ME) system for on-line predi...

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Main Authors: Ng, Shu, Mclachlan, G., Lee, Andy
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14954