Comparison of hospital charge prediction models for gastric cancer patients: neural network vs. decision tree models

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In recent years, artificial neural network is advocated in modeling complex multivariable relationships due to its ability of fault tolerance; while decision tree of data mining technique was recommended because of its richness of cl...

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Main Authors: Hu Yun-tao, Li Man, Wang Jing, Zhu Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-09-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9/161