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Table 5 Most important explanatory variables for next day arrivals identified by floating search and recursive least squares

From: Forecasting daily emergency department arrivals using high-dimensional multivariate data: a feature selection approach

Feature family

Feature

Holiday name

Shrove sunday

Holiday name

Easter day

Holiday name

Midsummer

Holiday name

Christmas eve

Holiday name

All Saint’s day

Holiday name

Independence day eve

Holiday name

Ascension day

Holiday

Holidayt−1

Available hospital beds

Health centre 2

Available hospital beds

Health centre 11, Ward 1

Available hospital beds

University hospital, ED ward

Calendar variable

Working day

Month

March

Month

February

Month

December

Public event

29 individual public events*

Public event

Number of major public events

Weather

Cloud count

Website visits

Website visitstays.fi/acuta

Website visits

Website visitstays.fi

Weekday

Thursday

Weekday

Saturday

Weekday

Friday

Weekday

Wednesday

Weekday

Tuesday

Weekday

Sunday

Weekday

Monday

  1. *Individual public events are not shown here due to their high number