Companies and organizations possess a vast amount of data, but in some cases are not able to use the data in an economic and efficient manner. With the increased need for text and document management methods, comes the need to have properly developed systems or databases that house the...

"This book provides the most recent technical information related to the computational models of the text mining process, discussing techniques within the realms of classification, association analysis, information extraction, and clustering. Offering an innovative approach to the utilization of...

1. Introduction to ranking models -- 2. Data visualization and data summary -- 3. Statistical methods -- 4. Predictive modeling versus regression -- 5. The Charleston Comorbidity Index -- 6. The all patient refined diagnosis related group -- 7. Risk adjustment based upon resource utilization --...