Data-Driven Models for Capacity Allocation of Inpatient Beds in a Chinese Public Hospital

Figure 1

Results of (a) empirical distribution fitting of daily new arrivals of urgent patients and regular patients and (b) optimal capacity allocation policy. In (a), (A) describes the empirical distribution of the daily arrivals of urgent patients, and the (B) describes that of the regular patients. Both charts do not take the related features into account. In (b), (A) describes the optimization results of the allocation quota for urgent patients, and (B) describes the corresponding revenue.

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