探索机器学习算法来预测尼日利亚生育年龄妇女的生育偏好
Zinabu Bekele Tadese1, Teshome Demis Nimani2, Kusse Urmale Mare3
1Department of Health Informatics, College of Medicine and Health Science, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia.
Frontiers in digital health
|January 31, 2025
概括
机器学习准确地预测了尼日利亚妇女的生育偏好,确定了诸如孩子数和年龄等关键因素. 这些见解可以改善计划生育计划,促进可持续发展.
科学领域:
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
- 机器学习 机器学习
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 尼日利亚面临着持续高的生育率 (2018年为5.3%),尽管有各种干预措施.
- 了解生育偏好对于该地区有效的计划生育至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 预测尼日利亚生育年龄妇女的生育偏好.
- 通过先进的机器学习来识别影响这些偏好的关键预测因素.
主要方法:
- 2018年尼日利亚人口和健康调查的二次数据分析 (n=37,581).
- 采用了六种机器学习算法,包括随机森林,物流回归,SVM,KNN,决策树和XGBoost.
- 模型性能使用准确度,精度,回忆,F1得分和AUROC进行评估;特征重要性通过排列和基尼技术进行评估.
主要成果:
- 随机森林表现出卓越的性能,准确率为92%,精度为94%,回忆率为91%,F1得分为92%和AUROC得分为92%.
- 生育偏好的关键预测因素包括孩子的数量,年龄组和理想的家庭规模.
- 从地区,避孕意图,种族和配偶职业中观察到适度的影响;女性的职业,教育和婚姻状况的影响较小.
结论:
- 机器学习有效地分析复杂的人口统计数据,以发现影响生育偏好的因素.
- 结果为尼日利亚开发有针对性的计划生育干预提供了有价值的见解.
- 改善计划生育可以为尼日利亚的可持续发展目标做出贡献.
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