Prediksi Jumlah Pendonor Darah di Kabupaten Langkat Menggunakan Metode Regresi Linear

A blood donor is someone who wants to donate their own blood to people in need without any element of coercion from anyone. Predicting the number of blood donors is very important and necessary to find out the number of blood donors in Langkat Regency in 2023-2024, and the prediction results can help PMI Langkat Regency in increasing the number of blood donors. The method applied in this prediction system is Linear Regression, where this analysis determines whether or not each variable is in accordance with the prediction results being tested and estimates that the value of the variable will increase or decrease each month. The prediction system is carried out using the RapidMiner application because this application is very appropriate for producing information output in the form of prediction results for the coming year. The prediction results obtained by testing using the Linear Regression method show increases and decreases every month. There are 11 months where there has been an increase and decrease in the predicted results and are in accordance with the data in 2023, then there is 1 month which has decreased in the predicted results and does not match the data in 2023. From the overall data results, it can be calculated the number of blood donors in Langkat Regency in 2023 and every month. Measuring the error level of prediction results using RMSE, the resulting accuracy level was 83.574%.