Correlation Analysis between TCM Syndromes and Physicochemical Parameters
SUN Zhan-quan
XI Guang-cheng
Li Hai-xia
YI Jian-qiang
WANG jie
摘要：Traditionally, differentiation of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) mainly depends on the information obtained from four diagnosis methods. Now many physicochemical parameters are available in clinic. There exists great correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters.The objective of the paper is to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters quantitatively. Correlation analysis has been widely studied and many analysis methods have been developed. Mutual information based on entropy can measure arbitrary dependence between variables. It has been applied to many kinds of fields, especially to pattern recognition. But most works are restricted to discrete variables and little work has been done to study the relation between discrete and continuous variables. A novel algorithm is proposed to calculate the mutual information between discrete and continuous variables. It is used to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters.
机标关键词：mutual informationTraditional Chinese Medicinepattern recognitiondiscrete variablesanalysis methods
分类号：R3(基础医学)
资助基金：国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)(2003CB517106)MOST Projects(2004DFB02100)
论文发表日期：2006-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：10( 93-102 )
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