@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012762,
	  title     = {Designing Social Care Policies in the Long Term: A Study Using Regression, Clustering and Backpropagation Neural Nets},
	  author    = {Sotirios Raptis},
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	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {Linking social needs to social classes using different criteria may lead to social services misuse. The paper discusses using ML and Neural Networks (NNs) in linking public services in Scotland in the long term and advocates, this can result in a reduction of the services cost connecting resources needed in groups for similar services. The paper combines typical regression models with clustering and cross-correlation as complementary constituents to predict the demand. Insurance companies and public policymakers can pack linked services such as those offered to the elderly or to low-income people in the longer term. The work is based on public data from 22 services offered by Public Health Services (PHS) Scotland and from the Scottish Government (SG) from 1981 to 2019 that are broken into 110 years series called factors and uses Linear Regression (LR), Autoregression (ARMA) and 3 types of back-propagation (BP) Neural Networks (BPNN) to link them under specific conditions. Relationships found were between smoking related healthcare provision, mental health-related health services, and epidemiological weight in Primary 1(Education) Body Mass Index (BMI) in children. Primary component analysis (PCA) found 11 significant factors while C-Means (CM) clustering gave 5 major factors clusters.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences},
	  volume    = {16},
	  number    = {10},
	  year      = {2022},
	  pages     = {92 - 102},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012762},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/190},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 190, 2022},
	}