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n. 1. a property of certain probability distributions: the exponential distributions and the geometric distributions, wherein any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples. 2. the life and times of Steve Myles

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Tags: ECG data data mining heart attack heart attacks heart disease machine learning healthcare

Data-Mining Could Predict Heart Attack Risk

A team of researchers has used data-mining and machine-learning techniques to find subtle changes in electrical activity in the heart that can be used to predict potentially fatal heart attacks. Researchers from the University of Michigan, MIT, Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston sifted through 24-hour electrocardiograms (which measure the electrical activity in the heart) from 4,557 heart-attack patients to find errant patterns that until now had been dismissed as noise or were undetectable.

(via INFORMS)