The report, which was published March 23 in Nature, accounted for 26 million mental health visits made by more than 3 million people. The associated data was fed through algorithms of varying complexity, and the simpler ones performed nearly as well as those that were more complex.
The findings could spell good news for organizations with limited resources, since simpler algorithms are easier to write, and are less likely to bog down computer systems.
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