The Application of Mixture Modeling and Information Criteria for Discovering Patterns of Coronary Heart Disease
Journal Title: Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods - Year 2008, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper’s purpose is twofold: first it addresses the adequacy of some theoretical information criteria when using finite mixture modelling (unsupervised learning) on discovering patterns in continuous data; second, we aim to apply these models and BIC to discover patterns of coronary heart disease. In order to select among several information criteria, which may support the selection of the correct number of clusters, we conduct a simulation study, in order to determine which information criteria are more appropriate for mixture model selection when considering data sets with only continuous clustering base variables. As a result, the criterion BIC shows a better performance, that is, it indicates the correct number of the simulated cluster structures more often. When applied to discover patterns of Coronary Heart Disease, it performed well, discovering the known pattern of data.
Authors and Affiliations
Jaime FONSECA
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP160683
- DOI -
- Views 93
- Downloads 0
Modelling the Educational Process in Asymmetric Information
The level of education is highly related to the future possibilities to find a job. It is obvious that the people with university degrees have better chances that the other ones. A person with higher education degree has...
Improving the Performance of Sparse LU Matrix Factorization Using a Supernodal Algorithm
In this paper we investigate a method to improve the performance of sparse LU matrix factorization used to solve unsymmetric linear systems, which appear in many mathematical models. We introduced and used the concept of...
Study of Equilibrium Prices, Using General Equilibrium Models
The first part of the paper presents some theoretical aspects related to general equilibrium models and the motivation of formulating the general equilibrium models as mixed complementary ones. Then we present a general...
Young Public Manager in Romania - a New Approach
This paper addresses issues of civil service development, in the context of public administration reform. There are, in the countries of the old and new Europes, a wide variety of approaches to training and development i...
COMPARING DISTRIBUTIONS: THE TWO-SAMPLE ANDERSON-DARLING TEST AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOFF TEST
This paper introduces the two-sample Anderson-Darling (AD) test of goodness of fit as a tool for comparing distributions, response time distributions in particular. We discuss the problematic use of pooling response time...