An unsupervised pattern (syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine) discovery algorithm based on association delineated by revised mutual information in chronic renal failure data

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-451

  Chen, Jianxin ^a   Xi, Guangcheng ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Zhen, Yisong ^b   Xing, Yanwei ^c   Wang, Jie ^c   Wang, Wei ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Association measure; Clinical epidemiology survey; Mutual information; Syndrome; Traditional Chinese medicine; Unsupervised pattern discovery algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149042643     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339007002350     Document Type: Article

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