Comparing data mining methods with logistic regression in childhood obesity prediction

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	Comparing data mining methods with logistic regression in childhood obesity prediction
	Zhang, Shaoyan; Tjortjis, Christos; Zeng, Xiaojun; Qiao, Hong; Buchan, Iain; Keane, John
发表期刊	INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
	2009-09
卷号	11 期号:4 页码:449-460
摘要	The epidemiological question of concern here is "can young children at risk of obesity be identified from their early growth records?" Pilot work using logistic regression to predict overweight and obese children demonstrated relatively limited success. Hence we investigate the incorporation of non-linear interactions to help improve accuracy of prediction; by comparing the result of logistic regression with those of six mature data mining techniques. The contributions of this paper are as follows: a) a comparison of logistic regression with six data mining techniques: specifically, for the prediction of overweight and obese children at 3 years using data recorded at birth, 6 weeks, 8 months and 2 years respectively; b) improved accuracy of prediction: prediction at 8 months accuracy is improved very slightly, in this case by using neural networks, whereas for prediction at 2 years obtained accuracy is improved by over 10%, in this case by using Bayesian methods. It has also been shown that incorporation of non-linear interactions could be important in epidemiological prediction, and that data mining techniques are becoming sufficiently well established to offer the medical research community a valid alternative to logistic regression.
关键词	Medical Data Mining Machine Learning Public Health Prediction Accuracy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/12593
专题	09年以前成果
通讯作者	Tjortjis, Christos
作者单位	Univ Manchester, Sch Comp Sci
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Shaoyan,Tjortjis, Christos,Zeng, Xiaojun,et al. Comparing data mining methods with logistic regression in childhood obesity prediction[J]. INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS,2009,11(4):449-460.
APA	Zhang, Shaoyan,Tjortjis, Christos,Zeng, Xiaojun,Qiao, Hong,Buchan, Iain,&Keane, John.(2009).Comparing data mining methods with logistic regression in childhood obesity prediction.INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS,11(4),449-460.
MLA	Zhang, Shaoyan,et al."Comparing data mining methods with logistic regression in childhood obesity prediction".INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS 11.4(2009):449-460.