Generation of Knowledge for Clinical Decision Support: Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques

Clinical Decision Support

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 227-248

  Matheny, Michael E ^a   Ohno Machado, Lucila ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369377-8/50011-8     Document Type: Chapter

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