Forecasting Daily Volume and Acuity of Patients in the Emergency Department

Table 4

Significance of climate variables by classification of patients and for different time lags.

	Total	VU	U
Average temperature ()	0.293	0.379	0.183
Minimal temperature ()	0.007	0.64	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.048	0.441	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.098	0.1	0.260
Rain ()	0.178	0.534	0.001
Air-velocity ()	0.060	0.462	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.593	0.309	0.020
Insolation ()	0.477	0.243	0.458
Average temperature ()	0.828	0.888	0.876
Minimal temperature ()	0.016	0.903	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.010	0.611	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.618	0.423	0.902
Rain ()	0.942	0.627	0.248
Air-velocity ()	0.031	0.49	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.359	0.144	0.719
Insolation ()	0.211	0.079	0.388
Average temperature ()	0.818	0.809	0.948
Minimal temperature ()	0.096	0.453	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.061	0.149	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.819	0.533	0.555
Rain ()	0.829	0.547	0.266
Air-velocity ()	0.169	0.081	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.272	0.033	0.755
Insolation ()	0.773	0.346	0.426
Average temperature ()	0.480	0.796	0.077
Minimal temperature ()	0.392	0.078	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.349	0.042	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.885	0.862	0.732
Rain ()	0.699	0.496	0.100
Air-velocity ()	0.591	0.01	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.639	0.236	0.410
Insolation ()	0.356	0.335	0.445
Average temperature ()	0.652	0.613	0.080
Minimal temperature ()	0.522	0.024	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.518	0.018	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.861	0.602	0.464
Rain ()	0.761	0.063	0.005
Air-velocity ()	0.771	0.004	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.461	0.016	0.072
Insolation ()	0.884	0.863	0.753
Average temperature ()	0.657	0.779	0.436
Minimal temperature ()	0.652	0.058	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.262	0.03	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.487	0.847	0.204
Rain ()	0.767	0.268	0.039
Air-velocity ()	0.678	0.011	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.876	0.237	0.094
Insolation ()	0.677	0.884	0.634
Average temperature ()	0.788	0.791	0.211
Minimal temperature ()	0.485	0.034	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.374	0.036	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.964	0.544	0.674
Rain ()	0.468	0.36	0.019
Air-velocity ()	0.786	0.005	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.570	0.164	0.009
Insolation ()	0.891	0.779	0.798
Average temperature ()	0.059	0.067	0.235
Minimal temperature ()	0.191	0.116	0.000
Maximal temperature ()	0.744	0.011	0.000
Temperature gap ()	0.119	0.441	0.133
Rain ()	0.152	0.888	0.004
Air-velocity ()	0.679	0.006	0.000
Relative humidity ()	0.913	0.134	0.022
Insolation ()	0.774	0.857	0.549

() days of lags
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