Is demography destiny? Application of machine learning techniques to accurately predict population health outcomes from a minimal demographic dataset

© 2015 Luo et al. For years, we have relied on population surveys to keep track of regional public health statistics, including the prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Because of the cost and limitations of such surveys, we often do not have the up-to-date data on health outcomes of a region. I...

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Main Authors: Luo, W., Nguyen, T., Nichols, M., Tran, The Truyen, Rana, S., Gupta, S., Phung, D., Venkatesh, S., Allender, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33226