Replacing indicator variables by fuzzy membership functions in statistical regression models: Examples of epidemiological studies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3337, Issue , 2004, Pages 251-258

  Bolotin, Arkady ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETIC PATIENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; INDICATOR VARIABLES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODEL;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 35048819056     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30547-7_26     Document Type: Article

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