A complex systems approach to causal discovery in psychiatry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Saxe, Glenn N ^a   Statnikov, Alexander ^a   Fenyo, David ^a   Ren, Jiwen ^a   Li, Zhiguo ^a   Prasad, Meera ^b   Wall, Dennis ^c   Bergman, Nora ^a   Briggs, Ernestine C ^d   Aliferis, Constantin ^e,f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHIATRY; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INJURY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84978139019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151174     Document Type: Article

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