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BANA7030 Homework 1 Fall 2024

The BANA7030 Homework Assignment 1 for Fall 2024 requires group collaboration to analyze NICU data and fit distributions for Length of Stay (LOS). Students must submit various documents including homework answers, NICU data analysis code, and distribution fitting code, while adhering to specific naming conventions. The assignment includes tasks related to the effects of gestational age on LOS, recommendations for simulation modeling approaches, and fitting distributions using Python and Arena.

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BANA7030 Homework 1 Fall 2024

The BANA7030 Homework Assignment 1 for Fall 2024 requires group collaboration to analyze NICU data and fit distributions for Length of Stay (LOS). Students must submit various documents including homework answers, NICU data analysis code, and distribution fitting code, while adhering to specific naming conventions. The assignment includes tasks related to the effects of gestational age on LOS, recommendations for simulation modeling approaches, and fitting distributions using Python and Arena.

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BANA7030 – Homework Assignment 1

Fall 2024

Group Number: _____________________

Description:
This assignment is designed to cover information about simulation basics and data distributions. The
assignment is to be completed by your group. Each student needs to sign up for a group in Canvas.
Work and collaboration should only be done with group members and code/answers should not be
shared outside of your group. As outlined in the syllabus, students may use Generative AI to aid in
solving the problems but must annotate their use of this tool

In Canvas, groups must submit the following documents that follow this naming convention.

Homework Answers: This document with the answers to the questions embedded in the document.
This file should be named. BANA7030_HW1_Group_n (where n represents your group number.)

NICU Data Analysis: This document should have the code used to answer the questions for the NICU
Data Analysis. The file should be named HW1_NICU_Data_Group_n. If using Python, copy the code to a
word document for your submission. Do not submit a Juypter notebook

Distribution Models: This document should have the code used to fit the distribution for the homework
data file. The file name should be HW1_Fitter_Group_n. Copy your python code to a word document
for the submission. No code submission is required for the Arena problem.

If using Generative AI, upload a file called HW1_Appendix_Group_n. Each element of the should
include: (1) the AI tool used, (2) the date of use, (3) the prompt used to generate content, (4) a brief
description of the output.

Homework Questions:

1. NICU Data Analysis: (60 points)


The Neonatal Intensive Car Unit (NICU) cares for infants who have complex medical conditions.
Most babies come to the NICU immediately after birth. A full-term baby has a gestational age of
40 weeks, but many babies that are admitted to the NICU are born early.

The dataset provided has the following fields


Patient ID – A unque identifier for a patient in the NICU
Admission Date – The date and time the patient was admitted to the hospital
Discharge Date – The date that the patient was discharged from the hospital
Gestational Age – The age (in weeks) when the baby was born
Birth Weight – The weight of the baby (in grams) at birth
Complex – A flag designating whether the baby has one of 7 different comple conditions. (1 =
complex patient, 0 = non-complex patient)
LOS - The Length of Stay in the NICU which is computed by taking the discharge time minus the
arrival time into the unit.
We need to develop a simulation model of the NICU in order to figure out how many beds are
needed on the unit. We don’t want to overstaff the unit but we als want to reduce the number
of patients that must be turned away because no bed is available. It has been noted that over
the last few years that the number of babies < 28 weeks of gestational age has increased and
this trend is expected to continue as medical advancements offer hope of survival for these very
young, small babies.

The first step that must be taken is a thorough analysis of the data. We need to determine how
data must be sub-divided to accurately develop a model of this. Note: The model will be
developed in subsequent homework assignments.

A. (10 points each) Eplore the effect of gestational age on the length of stay in the NICU.
Create statistics to aid in the analysis of gestational age of the length of stay in the
hospital for each patient. Eplore groupings of based on the age of the baby at birth.
Treat any age over 40 weeks in one grouping. Provide detailed statistics and/or visuals
of your data analysis for each grouping.
i. No groupings
ii. individual weeks (22, 23, 24, etc)
iii. groupings of 2 weeks (22-23, 24-25, 26-27, etc.), and
iv. groupings of 3 weeks (22-24, 25-27, 28-30, 31-33, etc.)

B. (10 points) Which approach would you recommend for a simulation model? Why do you
think this would be the best modeling approach to use?

C. (10 points) What role do you think that birth weight should take in developing the
simulation model?
2. Distribution Problem: (20 points)
Fit a distribution for the LOS(Length of Stay) for the NICU patients.to the data in the
BANA7030_Homework_1_DataFile.csv using Python. The function get_common_distributions()
in Fitter, will fit the 10 most common types of distributions. Use distributions =
get_common_distributions() within the Fitter function to fit the data to these data distributions.

a. Using the sumsquare error, which distribution is the best fit?

b. What are the parameters that would be used with the best fit distribution?

3. Distribution Problem: (20 points)


Fit a distribution for the LOS(Length of Stay) for the NICU patients.to the data in the
BANA7030_Homework_1_DataFile.csv in Arena using Input Analyzer. Use Fit All to fit the data
to these data distributions.

a. What type of distribution Is the best fit for this data?

b. What is the expression in Arena that would be used to incorporate this data into a
simulation model?

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