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Table 4 Average correlation for the diabetes cohort

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

0.611

0.566

0.553

3

0.649

0.592

0.559

6

0.662

0.594

0.541

12

0.675

0.581

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  1. For one period later, the correlation increases as the period length increases. However, when the subsequent periods are more temporally distant (two or three periods later), this is no longer true