The problem addressed by past researchers was to predict from the other variables whether or not the patient will survive at least one year.
The most difficult part of this problem is correctly predicting that the patient will NOT survive. (Part of the difficulty seems to be the size of the data set.)
This data set is recommended for learning and practicing your skills in **exploratory data analysis**, **data visualization**, **dealing with missing values** and **classification modelling techniques**.
This data set is recommended for learning and practicing your skills in **exploratory data analysis**, **data visualization**, **dealing with missing values** and **classification modelling techniques**.
Feel free to explore the data set with multiple **supervised** and **unsupervised** learning techniques. The Following data dictionary gives more details on this data set:
