A heuristic index for selecting similar categories in multiple correspondence analysis applied to living donor kidney transplantation

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-229

  Costa, João Carlos G D ^a   Almeida, Renan Moritz Varnier R ^a   Infantosi, Antonio Fernando C ^a   Suassuna, José Hermógenes R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO PEDRO ERNESTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Correspondence analysis; Exploratory data analysis; Kidney transplantation; Singular value decomposition; Stability

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GRAFTS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

BOOTSTRAP; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

CYCLOSPORIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RECIPIENT; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYCLOSPORINE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 42249102428     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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