Case-based estimation of the risk of enterobiasis

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 167-177

  Remm, Mare ^a,b   Remm, Kalle ^b  

^a Tartu Health Care College   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning software; Nursery school children; Risk estimation of enterobiasis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS;

NURSERY SCHOOL CHILDREN; RISK ESTIMATION;

CASE BASED REASONING;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENTEROBIASIS; ESTONIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MACHINE LEARNING; NURSERY SCHOOL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 46549084681     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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