BPDM 2016

In The Lab (Data Hack)

Problem

Predict whether or not a person has Health Insurance based on collected demographic information.

Data

Variables

All data for this Data Hack comes from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Specifically, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nhanes_questionnaires.htm.

1. Independent Variables - Demographic Information for ~10,000 people interviewed in 2011-12 and 2013-14.
2. Dependent Variable - If person has insurance (HIQ011 = 0.0) or does not (HIQ011 = 1.0).

Predictive Modeling

Two comma-delimited files are being provided:

• train_2011_12_DATA.csv
• test_2013_14_DATA.csv

For binary classification, use "train_2011_12_DATA.csv" for training and validating model(s), and "test_2013_14_DATA.csv" for estimating the performance of the model(s)