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Glenn Young
Roman Holowinsky, PhD
JUNE 10, 2024
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Educational outcomes for children as a function of healthcare access
Nicholas Castillo, Glenn Young, Anthony Kling, Ayomikun Adeniran, Edward Varvak, samara chamoun
According to the CDC, around 5.8% of grade school students missed at least 15 days of school in 2022 due to health-related reasons. Chronic absenteeism results in students missing milestones in reading and math, and consequently falling behind their peers, possibly putting educational success out of reach. The goal of this project is to determine if there is a relationship between ease of access to healthcare in children and educational outcomes.
Using data from the National Survey of Children's Health, we identified 88 relevant features, later refined to 10 key predictors through selection methods. We looked at various models and ultimately chose logistic regression for its interpretability and performance.