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Table 6 Prediction performance of the developed models

From: Predicting emergency department visits in a large teaching hospital

Model

MAPE

Empty model

12.198%

First set of predictors

9.893%

Second set of predictors

9.536%

Refined set of predictors

8.684%

Calendar-only model

8.718%

  1. MAPE was measured using the mean average prediction error (average percentage the test predictions are off compared to the true number of daily ED visits); MAPE mean absolute percentage error