Rough sets: A knowledge discovery technique for multifactorial medical outcomes

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 100-108

  Øhrn, Aleksander ^a   Rowland, Todd ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulation; Classification; Data Mining; Knowledge Discovery; Machine Learning; Modeling; Outcome; Prognosis; Rough Sets

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

AMBULATION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; PROGNOSIS; ROUGH SETS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOBILIZATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGISTRIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033956372     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002060-200001000-00022     Document Type: Article

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