The paper reports three new ensembles of supervised learning predictors for managing medical insurance costs.The open dataset is used for data analysis methods development.The usage of artificial intelligence in the m...The paper reports three new ensembles of supervised learning predictors for managing medical insurance costs.The open dataset is used for data analysis methods development.The usage of artificial intelligence in the management of financial risks will facilitate economic wear time and money and protect patients’health.Machine learning is associated withmany expectations,but its quality is determined by choosing a good algorithm and the proper steps to plan,develop,and implement the model.The paper aims to develop three new ensembles for individual insurance costs prediction to provide high prediction accuracy.Pierson coefficient and Boruta algorithm are used for feature selection.The boosting,stacking,and bagging ensembles are built.A comparison with existing machine learning algorithms is given.Boosting modes based on regression tree and stochastic gradient descent is built.Bagged CART and Random Forest algorithms are proposed.The boosting and stacking ensembles shown better accuracy than bagging.The tuning parameters for boosting do not allow to decrease the RMSE too.So,bagging shows its weakness in generalizing the prediction.The stacking is developed using K Nearest Neighbors(KNN),Support Vector Machine(SVM),Regression Tree,Linear Regression,Stochastic Gradient Boosting.The random forest(RF)algorithm is used to combine the predictions.One hundred trees are built forRF.RootMean Square Error(RMSE)has lifted the to 3173.213 in comparison with other predictors.The quality of the developed ensemble for RootMean Squared Error metric is 1.47 better than for the best weak predictor(SVR).展开更多
文摘The paper reports three new ensembles of supervised learning predictors for managing medical insurance costs.The open dataset is used for data analysis methods development.The usage of artificial intelligence in the management of financial risks will facilitate economic wear time and money and protect patients’health.Machine learning is associated withmany expectations,but its quality is determined by choosing a good algorithm and the proper steps to plan,develop,and implement the model.The paper aims to develop three new ensembles for individual insurance costs prediction to provide high prediction accuracy.Pierson coefficient and Boruta algorithm are used for feature selection.The boosting,stacking,and bagging ensembles are built.A comparison with existing machine learning algorithms is given.Boosting modes based on regression tree and stochastic gradient descent is built.Bagged CART and Random Forest algorithms are proposed.The boosting and stacking ensembles shown better accuracy than bagging.The tuning parameters for boosting do not allow to decrease the RMSE too.So,bagging shows its weakness in generalizing the prediction.The stacking is developed using K Nearest Neighbors(KNN),Support Vector Machine(SVM),Regression Tree,Linear Regression,Stochastic Gradient Boosting.The random forest(RF)algorithm is used to combine the predictions.One hundred trees are built forRF.RootMean Square Error(RMSE)has lifted the to 3173.213 in comparison with other predictors.The quality of the developed ensemble for RootMean Squared Error metric is 1.47 better than for the best weak predictor(SVR).