Leverage machine learning to identify key measures in hospital operations management: a retrospective study to explore feasibility and performance of four common algorithms

Table 3 Measures identified as important over four consecutive years with the same machine learning technique: financial balance

Technique	Measure
LM	Inpatient treatment
RF	Inpatient treatment Labor costs Inpatient examination Equipment depreciation
PLS	Inpatient treatment Labor costs Inpatient examination
NN	Inpatient treatment

Note: LM, linear models; RF, random forest; PLS, partial least squares; and NN, neural networks

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