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Record W4417499111 · doi:10.1145/3785661

State-of-the-Art Review and Comparative Experimentation of Emergency Call Prediction Models

2025· article· en· W4417499111 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM Computing Surveys · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEmergency and Acute Care Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRandom forestFeature selectionMean squared errorLasso (programming language)Mean absolute errorResidualPredictive modellingFeature (linguistics)Mean absolute percentage errorStandard deviation

Abstract

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In this article, we present a comprehensive survey of emergency call volume prediction methods, along with a comparative experimental study of various models. We first outline the methods and their use cases, highlighting the key features leveraged in each state-of-the-art approach. Using real time series data on emergency calls, supplemented with meteorological, demographic, and event-related variables, we evaluate the existing models at two granularities: yearly and daily. In addition to applying the original methods, as they are proposed in the state of the art, we perform the variable selection through techniques like Lasso, Correlation Coefficients (CC), Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), and Random Forest Feature Importance (RFFI). We then compare time series based models, regression models, neural networks, and non-parametric approaches. Performance is evaluated using metrics including Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), Residual Standard Deviation (RSD), and the Coefficient of Determination (R 2 ). The results show that Random Forest and feature-selection–based Lasso achieve the highest accuracy for predicting the total call volume for each hour of the day throughout the year. For daily call volume, time series–based methods perform best when using weather conditions and temporal variables selected by the RFFI method.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.324
Threshold uncertainty score0.268

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it