Mining patterns from longitudinal studies

  • Authors:
  • Aída Jiménez;Fernando Berzal;Juan-Carlos Cubero

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, CITIC, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, CITIC, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, CITIC, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ADMA'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Longitudinal studies are observational studies that involve repeated observations of the same variables over long periods of time. In this paper, we propose the use of tree pattern mining techniques to discover potentially interesting patterns within longitudinal data sets. Following the approach described in [15], we propose four different representation schemes for longitudinal studies and we analyze the kinds of patterns that can be identified using each one of the proposed representation schemes. Our analysis provides some practical guidelines that might be useful in practice for exploring longitudinal datasets.