Adaptive Study Design Through Semantic Association Rule Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Ping Chen;Wei Ding;Walter Garcia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Houston-Downtown, USA;University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA;University of Houston-Downtown, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Association mining aims to find valid correlations among data attributes, and has been widely applied to many areas of data analysis. This paper presents a semantic network-based association analysis model including three spreading activation methods. It applies this model to assess the quality of a dataset, and generate semantically valid new hypotheses for adaptive study design especially useful in medical studies. The approach is evaluated on a real public health dataset, the Heartfelt study, and the experiment shows promising results.