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Table 1 Excerpt from the model matrix corresponding to St Mary’s Hospital. Explanatory covariates for the machine learning algorithms are listed

From: A unified machine learning approach to time series forecasting applied to demand at emergency departments

Date

2014-04-10

2014-04-11

2014-04-12

2014-04-13

demand

198

183

172

185

month

April

April

April

April

yesterday

218

198

183

172

same day last week

223

189

187

195

average of previous week

199.6

196

195.1

193

time

−0.306

−0.305

−0.304

−0.303

bank holiday

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

school holiday

FALSE

FALSE

TRUE

TRUE

day of week

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

precipitation on previous day

0

0

0

0

max temperature on previous day

17.5

17.2

15.0

17.4

min temperature on previous day

12.0

11.8

10.8

11.3

flu hits on google on previous day

7.52

4.88

5.12

4.08

Notting Hill carnival

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

Christmas

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE