Lessons learned from data mining of WHO mortality database

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 380-385

  Paoin, Wansa ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Association analysis; Classification; Clustering; Data mining; Mortality statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MORTALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 83455219630     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME10-02-0019     Document Type: Article

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