In this paper we consider the problem of short-term peak load forecasting using past heating demand data in a district-heating system. Our data-set consists of four separate periods, with 198 days in each period and 24 hourly observations in each day. We can detect both an intra-daily...

In this work we propose a novel EM method for the estimation of nonlinear nonparametric mixed-effects models, aimed at unsupervised classification. We perform simulation studies in order to evaluate the algorithm performance and we apply this new procedure to a real dataset. Copyright...

This study investigates the stability of the “hospital effect” on performance over time by administrative health data as a source of evidence. Using 78,907 heart failure adult records from 117 hospitals in the Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) over three years (2010–2012), we analyzed...