Title
An influence-based fast preceding questionnaire model for elderly assessments.
Abstract
To improve the efficiency of elderly assessments, an influence-based fast preceding questionnaire model (FPQM) is proposed. Compared with traditional assessments, the FPQM optimizes questionnaires by reordering their attributes. The values of low-ranking attributes can be predicted by the values of the high-ranking attributes. Therefore, the number of attributes can be reduced without redesigning the questionnaires. A new function for calculating the influence of the attributes is proposed based on probability theory. Reordering and reducing algorithms are given based on the attributesu0027 influences. The model is verified through a practical application. The practice in an elderly-care company shows that the FPQM can reduce the number of attributes by 90.56% with a prediction accuracy of 98.39%. Compared with other methods, such as the Expert Knowledge, Rough Set and C4.5 methods, the FPQM achieves the best performance. In addition, the FPQM can also be applied to other questionnaires.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3233/ida-163320
intelligent data analysis
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
abs/1711.08228
2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tong Mo1133.68
Rong Zhang270454.69
Weiping Li312.39
Jingbo Zhang453.52
Zhonghai Wu5328.06
Wei Tan6131778.90