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Table 3 Average percentile ± standard deviation in the following periods of the top 10%

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

72.19 ± 33.36

68.98 ±  35.88

72.70 ± 33.76

3

80.84 ± 24.42

78.12 ± 27.09

76.58 ± 28.09

6

83.13 ± 21.11

80.60 ± 23.37

79.33 ± 24.12

12

85.39 ± 18.01

82.91 ± 20.19

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  1. The standard deviation decreases as the period length increases, again suggesting that HCHN patients are more stable in longer periods