Deliverables
Please enter the profile of an applicant and get the score!
Please enter the profile of a foster candidate and get Top 3 types of children for matching up!
Limitation
1) More information other than demographic statistics about foster families are in need to build a decision tree with higher accuracy of prediction (around 73% currently).
2) The frequency distribution of different ethnic families is quite skewed, which may erode the generability of the prediction model.
References:
Jessica Snowden, Scott Leon, Jeffrey Sieracki. Predictors of children in foster care being adopted: A classification tree analysis. Children and Youth Services Review 30, 1318–1327 (2008).
US Department of Health and Human Services. (2015). Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau.(2013). The AFCARS report: Preliminary FY 2012 estimates as of July 31, 2013 (No. 20). Washington, DC: Author.
Therneau, T., Atkinson, B., Ripley, B.(2015). Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees. R Package version 4.1.10.
PRESCAL Function, IBM Corp. Released 2013. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 24.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.