Survival analysis is critical in many fields, particularly in healthcare where it can guide medical decisions. Conventional survival analysis methods like Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models to generate survival curves indicating probability of survival v. time have limitations, especially for long-term prediction, due to assumptions that all instances follow a general population-level survival curve.
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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) presents a potentially curative treatment for hematologic malignancies yet carries associated risks and complications. Continuous research focuses on predicting outcomes and identifying risk factors. Notably, the influence of CD34+ cell dose on overall survival (OS) has been the subject of numerous studies yielding contradictory results.
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Over recent years, home health care has gained significant attention as an efficient solution to the increasing demand for healthcare services. Home health care scheduling is a challenging problem involving multiple complicated assignments and routing decisions subject to various constraints. The problem becomes even more challenging when considered on a rolling horizon with stochastic patient requests.
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