Mathematical model of hospital length of stay

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Le, Truc Viet.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Kwoh Chee Keong
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2009
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Life and medical sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16831
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Hospital length of stay (LOS) is often used as a reliable proxy for measuring the consumption of hospital resources. However, the empirical distribution of LOS is established to be highly skewed with a heavy right tail. This makes the applications of simple statistics, such as averaging, to LOS for...