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seiqooq t1_isn62an wrote

What is your ground truth? How does the data available for prediction differ from your GT? Depending on your answers, dates may add noise to your predictions.

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Meddhouib10 t1_isnjlvi wrote

I have couples of dates and procedures/tests ans their results. So having the date is important (per example a patient had cancer 5 years ago and was treated using conization)

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seiqooq t1_isoymwj wrote

Gotcha. In that case I’d use sinusoid embedding like others have suggested. Another alternative is normalizing all of the dates onto some small range, eg [0,1]

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