In the video below, we examine this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06402 Improving Palliative Care with Deep Learning Anand Avati, Kenneth Jung, Stephanie Harman, Lance Downing, Andrew Ng, Nigam H. Shah

Specifically, we look at the authors’ inclusion and exclusion criteria to understand how they affect the performance of their predictive model. For those who don’t want to watch the entire video, the take-away message is: don’t use information about the “future” in your inclusion/exclusion criteria for selecting your cases for your training data set. For details, please see the video below.

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