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Table 1 Average correlation for the entire adult population

From: Machine learning approaches for predicting high cost high need patient expenditures in health care

Period length (months)

One period later

Two periods later

Three periods later

1

0.564

0.526

0.521

3

0.651

0.584

0.516

6

0.653

0.566

0.515

12

0.676

0.594

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  1. The correlation increases as the period length increases and decreases as the examined periods become more temporally distant