Predictive Analytics. Social Sciences Assignment.

Predictive Analytics
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Predictive analytics has recently become the norm for many organizations in different industries and the healthcare docket has not been left behind as they take a big leap from basic descriptive analytics to predictive analytics. This is not just for the sake of staying relevant as far as new inventios in technology is concerned but because they are necessitated by the need to use past information in order to predict the future CITATION Ben19 \l 1033 (Calster, Wynants, Timmerman, Steyerberg, & Collins, 2019). Therefore, due to the growing data assets, healthcare organizations have extensively invested in predictive analytics in several areas including financial, secutity, and administrative among others as they seek to improve efficiency ni almost all facets in the realm of healthcare. Most importantly, predictive analytics is used in the healthcare sector to prevent suicide from causeing harm to themselves or from commiting suicide. That is, predictive analytics can be used to predict a patient’s likelihood of commiting suicide in order to give them the ne...