Cluster Analysis as an Appropriate Technique for Classification in Medicine: Application to Some Empirical Data on Neurology
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
The present article is an attempt to demonstrate the importance of cluster analysis in the classification of subjects—in this case patients—by grouping them according to the similarities they show in regard to disease. This is done by taking as an example certain neurological manifestations that define groups of patients with similar characteristics and variables
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Santiago Nieto Martín1, María Luisa Sevillano García2
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- DOI 10.15520/ijcrr/2017/8/05/172
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