Abstract
This paper describes the use of reconstructability analysis to perform a secondary study of traumatic brain injury data from automobile accidents. Neutral searches were done and their results displayed with a hypergraph. Directed searches, using both variable-based and state-based models, were applied to predict performance on two cognitive tests and one neurological test. Very simple state-based models gave large uncertainty reductions for all three DVs and sizeable improvements in percent correct for the two cognitive test DVs which were equally sampled. Conditional probability distributions for these models are easily visualized with simple decision trees. Confounding variables and counter-intuitive findings are also reported.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 174-191 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | International Journal of General Systems |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 17 2018 |
Keywords
- OCCAM
- Reconstructability analysis
- health care analytics
- information theory
- machine learning
- traumatic brain injury
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Modeling and Simulation
- Computer Science Applications