Paper Info
Title
Incomplete Statistical Information Fusion and Its Application to Clinical Trials Data
Abstract
In medical clinical trials, overall trial results are highlighted in the abstractsof papers/reports. These results are summaries of underlying statistical analysis where most of the time normal distributions are assumed in the analysis. It is common for clinicians to focus on the information in the abstracts in order to review or integrate several clinical trial results that address the same or similar medical question(s). Therefore, developing techniques to merge results from clinical trials based on information in the abstracts is useful and important. In reality information in an abstract can either provide sufficient details about a normal distribution or just partial information about a distribution. In this paper, we first propose approaches to constructing normal distributions from both complete and incomplete statistical information in the abstracts. We then provide methods to merge these normal distributions (or sampling distributions). Following this, we investigate the conditions under which two normal distributions can be merged. Finally, we design an algorithm to sequence the merging of trials results to ensure that the most reliable trials are considered first.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-75410-7_7
SUM
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical clinical trial,clinical trial result,normal distribution,partial information,clinical trial,incomplete statistical information fusion,overall trial result,incomplete statistical information,clinical trials data,time normal distribution,trials result,reality information,statistical analysis,data consistency
Information system,Sampling distribution,Data mining,Normal distribution,Information retrieval,Computer science,Clinical trial,Merge (version control),Information fusion,Consistency analysis,Statistical analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4772
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianbing Ma124215.73
wenbin liu240.42
Anthony Hunter33196204.65