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Statistical Applications In Healthcare Systems, Maryam Mojalal
Statistical Applications In Healthcare Systems, Maryam Mojalal
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This thesis consists of three contributing manuscripts related to waiting times with possible applications in health care. The first manuscript is inspired by a practical problem related to decision making in an emergency department (ED). As short-run predictions of ED censuses are particularly important for efficient allocation and management of ED resources we model ED changes and present estimations for short term (hourly) ED censuses at each time point. We present a Markov-chain based algorithm to make census predictions in near future.
Considering the variation in arrival pattern and service requirements, we apply and compare three models which best describe …