Blood Transfusion Service Center

Donated on 10/2/2008

Data taken from the Blood Transfusion Service Center in Hsin-Chu City in Taiwan -- this is a classification problem.

Dataset Characteristics

Multivariate

Subject Area

Business

Associated Tasks

Classification

Feature Type

Real

# Instances

748

# Features

4

Dataset Information

Additional Information

To demonstrate the RFMTC marketing model (a modified version of RFM), this study adopted the donor database of Blood Transfusion Service Center in Hsin-Chu City in Taiwan. The center passes their blood transfusion service bus to one university in Hsin-Chu City to gather blood donated about every three months. To build a FRMTC model, we selected 748 donors at random from the donor database. These 748 donor data, each one included R (Recency - months since last donation), F (Frequency - total number of donation), M (Monetary - total blood donated in c.c.), T (Time - months since first donation), and a binary variable representing whether he/she donated blood in March 2007 (1 stand for donating blood; 0 stands for not donating blood).

Has Missing Values?

No

Introductory Paper

Knowledge discovery on RFM model using Bernoulli sequence

By I. Yeh, K. Yang, Tao-Ming Ting. 2009

Published in Expert systems with applications

Variables Table

Variable NameRoleTypeDemographicDescriptionUnitsMissing Values
RecencyFeatureIntegermonths since last donationno
FrequencyFeatureIntegertotal number of donationsno
MonetaryFeatureIntegertotal blood donated in c.c.no
TimeFeatureIntegermonths since first donationno
Donated_BloodTargetBinarywhether he/she donated blood in March 2007 (1 stand for donating blood; 0 stands for not donating blood)no

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Additional Variable Information

Given is the variable name, variable type, the measurement unit and a brief description. The "Blood Transfusion Service Center" is a classification problem. The order of this listing corresponds to the order of numerals along the rows of the database. R (Recency - months since last donation), F (Frequency - total number of donation), M (Monetary - total blood donated in c.c.), T (Time - months since first donation), and a binary variable representing whether he/she donated blood in March 2007 (1 stand for donating blood; 0 stands for not donating blood). Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics of the data. We selected 500 data at random as the training set, and the rest 248 as the testing set. Table 1. Descriptive statistics of the data Variable Data Type Measurement Description min max mean std Recency quantitative Months Input 0.03 74.4 9.74 8.07 Frequency quantitative Times Input 1 50 5.51 5.84 Monetary quantitative c.c. blood Input 250 12500 1378.68 1459.83 Time quantitative Months Input 2.27 98.3 34.42 24.32 Whether he/she donated blood in March 2007 binary 1=yes 0=no Output 0 1 1 (24%) 0 (76%)

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© 2010 Science Publications Application of CART Algorithm in Blood Donors Classification

By T. Santhanam, Shyam Sundaram. 2010

Published in Journal of Computer Science.

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I-Cheng Yeh

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