"The deterioration prediction model was a time-aware multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) model"
I found this interesting:
> 1 truly alerted patient for every 2 falsely alerted patients was deemed an acceptable number of false alarms
In an ideal world, the nurse to patient ratio would be high enough that patients could be seen on regular rotation frequently. I've never been in a hospital where this was the case. So a system that can correctly prioritize resources for critical cases even if it's pulling resources away from non-critical cases will probably result in a net improved outcome.
If your home alarm caught one real burglar per each three occassions it triggered, I bet you wouldn't develop alarm fatigue. I certainly wouldn't.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_adaptive_regres...
I think there are two causes of Wikipedia maths articles' general awfulness:
1. They're probably written by people that just learnt about them and want to show off their superior knowledge rather than explain the concept.
2. The people writing them think it's supposed to be a precise mathematical definition of the concept, rather than an easy to understand introduction. It's like they're writing a formal model instead of a tutorial.
Often the Mathworld articles are a lot better than Wikipedia, when they exist at least.
The term "MARS" is trademarked and licensed to Salford Systems. In order to avoid trademark infringements, many open-source implementations of MARS are called "Earth".