A Comparison of Multivariate SARIMA and SVM Models for Emergency Department Admission Prediction

Alexander Zlotnik, Juan Manuel Montero Martínez, Ascención Gallardo-Antolín

2013

Abstract

A comparison of multivariate SARIMA model with a multivariate regression-based time series based on a Support Vector Machine model was performed for emergency department admissions prediction. The same input variables were used in both models. Both models were trained with consecutive daily samples of data corresponding to the January 2009 – August 2012 period (n=1339). Performance was evaluated on the September 2012 test dataset (n=30). The results obtained with the Support Vector Machine were found to be more accurate with a 46,53% RMSE improvement and a 48,89% MAE improvement on the train set. The experiment was repeated six times with varying time periods. The SVM approach produced better results in all cases. Error measurements on the test set were compared with a paired T test. The differences between all comparisons were found to be statistically significant in all cases with a 95% CI.

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in Harvard Style

Zlotnik A., Montero Martínez J. and Gallardo-Antolín A. (2013). A Comparison of Multivariate SARIMA and SVM Models for Emergency Department Admission Prediction . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2, pages 245-249. DOI: 10.5220/0004326102450249

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf13,
author={Alexander Zlotnik and Juan Manuel Montero Martínez and Ascención Gallardo-Antolín},
title={A Comparison of Multivariate SARIMA and SVM Models for Emergency Department Admission Prediction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={245-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004326102450249},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - A Comparison of Multivariate SARIMA and SVM Models for Emergency Department Admission Prediction
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
AU - Zlotnik A.
AU - Montero Martínez J.
AU - Gallardo-Antolín A.
PY - 2013
SP - 245
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0004326102450249