The 2009 INFORMS Data Mining Contest is the second installment of a data mining contest that started last year in conjunction with the INFORMS conference. The contest again involves predictive problems for health care quality.
The two tasks for this year's contest are: 1) modeling of a patient transfer guideline for patients with a severe medical condition from a community hospital setting to tertiary hospital provider and 2) assessment of the severity/risk of death of a patient's condition.
Predictions must be submitted by September 25. You may want to consider giving a talk at the Contest session at the INFORMS conference. Workshop acceptance will be based on successful submissions to the Contest. Contestants are encouraged to prepare a paper describing methods and insights to be considered for publication in a Special Issue in a data mining journal (to be determined). See the Contest site for more information.
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