Abstract

Vital statistics data offer a fertile ground for data mining. In this paper, we discuss the results of a data-mining project on the causes of death aspect of the vital statistics data in the state of California. A data-mining tool called Cubist is used to build predictive models out of two million cases over a nine-year period. The objective of our study is to discover knowledge (trends, correlations or patterns) that may not be gleaned through standard techniques. The generated predictive models allow pertinent state agencies to gain insight into various aspects of the death rates in the state of California, to predict health issues related to the causes of death, to offer an aid to decision or policy-making process and to provide useful information services to the customers. The results obtained in our study contain valuable new information.

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