{
  "id": 171762,
  "title": "Maximum FVC prediction weeks to provide?",
  "url": "/competitions/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/171762",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-08-02T11:32:58.880959500Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>Hi All, first competition and first time contributor here, so apologies if I'm misunderstanding anything! </p>\n\n<p>In some of the EDA notebooks, I read that we're asked to predict FVC for three random weeks from patients. </p>\n\n<p>Also, we're asked to provide FVC predictions (+ confidence) for every week, for each patient. </p>\n\n<p>My question is: For how many weeks should we provide predictions for each patient? 1 year? 5 years? </p>\n\n<p>I wanted to take the maximum week value across the (training + test) data, but what if the withheld dataset has later weeks than this? </p>",
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    {
      "id": "955141",
      "postDate": "08/02/2020 11:32:58",
      "content": "<p>Hi All, first competition and first time contributor here, so apologies if I'm misunderstanding anything! </p>\n\n<p>In some of the EDA notebooks, I read that we're asked to predict FVC for three random weeks from patients. </p>\n\n<p>Also, we're asked to provide FVC predictions (+ confidence) for every week, for each patient. </p>\n\n<p>My question is: For how many weeks should we provide predictions for each patient? 1 year? 5 years? </p>\n\n<p>I wanted to take the maximum week value across the (training + test) data, but what if the withheld dataset has later weeks than this? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi All, first competition and first time contributor here, so apologies if I'm misunderstanding anything! \n\nIn some of the EDA notebooks, I read that we're asked to predict FVC for three random weeks from patients. \n\nAlso, we're asked to provide FVC predictions (+ confidence) for every week, for each patient. \n\nMy question is: For how many weeks should we provide predictions for each patient? 1 year? 5 years? \n\nI wanted to take the maximum week value across the (training + test) data, but what if the withheld dataset has later weeks than this?",
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    },
    {
      "id": "955148",
      "postDate": "08/02/2020 11:47:08",
      "content": "<p>Oh wait, I think I've answered my own question. I see in the sample submission, weeks stretch from -12 to 133, for the five test patient IDs. </p>\n\n<p>I assume this is the range of predictions we should provide? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Oh wait, I think I've answered my own question. I see in the sample submission, weeks stretch from -12 to 133, for the five test patient IDs. \n\nI assume this is the range of predictions we should provide?",
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    {
      "id": "955189",
      "postDate": "08/02/2020 12:28:37",
      "content": "<p>Yes</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes",
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    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 955148,
      "author_name": "shaheenahmed",
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      "post_date": "08/02/2020 11:47:08",
      "content": "<p>Oh wait, I think I've answered my own question. I see in the sample submission, weeks stretch from -12 to 133, for the five test patient IDs. </p>\n\n<p>I assume this is the range of predictions we should provide? </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 955189,
          "author_name": "ahmedhshahin",
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          "post_date": "08/02/2020 12:28:37",
          "content": "<p>Yes</p>",
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        }
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    "955141": "Hi All, first competition and first time contributor here, so apologies if I'm misunderstanding anything! \n\nIn some of the EDA notebooks, I read that we're asked to predict FVC for three random weeks from patients. \n\nAlso, we're asked to provide FVC predictions (+ confidence) for every week, for each patient. \n\nMy question is: For how many weeks should we provide predictions for each patient? 1 year? 5 years? \n\nI wanted to take the maximum week value across the (training + test) data, but what if the withheld dataset has later weeks than this?",
    "955148": "Oh wait, I think I've answered my own question. I see in the sample submission, weeks stretch from -12 to 133, for the five test patient IDs. \n\nI assume this is the range of predictions we should provide?",
    "955189": "Yes"
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