Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua

• Main Authors: C. Källestål (Author), E. Blandón Zelaya (Author), R. Peña (Author), W. Peréz (Author), M. Contreras (Author), L. Å. Persson (Author), O. Sysoev (Author), K. Ekholm Selling (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In order to further identify the needed interventions for continued poverty reduction in our study area Cuatro Santos, northern Nicaragua, we aimed to elucidate what predicts poverty, measured by the Unsatisfied Basic Need index. This analysis was done by using decision tree meth...