Information theoretical approach to constitution and reduction of medical data

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 65-74

  Zvárová, Jana ^a   Studený, Milan ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Constitution of medical data; Measure of statistical dependence; Multiinformation; Reduction of medical data

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTITUTION AND REDUCTION OF MEDICAL DATA (CORE);

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERT SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0343144834     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(97)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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