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pital patients, to be updated with stay progression,
generating reliable daily risk scores to aid clinical
decision-making and facilitate preventive measures.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thomas Hartvigsen thanks the US Department of Ed-
ucation for supporting his PhD studies via the grant
P200A150306 on “GAANN Fellowships to Support
Data-Driven Computing Research”, while Cansu Sen
thanks WPI for granting her the Arvid Anderson
Fellowship (2015-2016) to pursue her PhD studies.
Sarah Brownell thanks the National Science Founda-
tion for undergraduate research funding for Summer
2017 through the NSF REU grant #1560229 entitled
”REU SITE: Data Science Research for Safe, Sustain-
able and Healthy Communities”. We also thank the
DSRG and Data Science Community at WPI for their
continued support and feedback.
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