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HICSS
2003
IEEE
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Measuring Healthcare Inequities using the Gini Index
Questions of healthcare inequities have been of continuing concern to health researchers, planners, and policymakers. The answers to such questions can be difficult to interpret, ...
Donald J. Berndt, John W. Fisher, Rama V. Rajendra...
JMLR
2010
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Feature Selection for Text Classification Based on Gini Coefficient of Inequality
A number of feature selection mechanisms have been explored in text categorization, among which mutual information, information gain and chi-square are considered most effective. ...
Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Hema A. Murthy, Timothy A. G...
AIME
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Behaviour of Information Measures for Test Selection
In diagnostic decision-support systems, a test-selection facility serves to select tests that are expected to yield the largest decrease in the uncertainty about a patient’s diag...
Danielle Sent, Linda C. van der Gaag
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Indicators of the Interdisciplinarity of Journals: Diversity, Centrality, and Citations
A citation-based indicator for interdisciplinarity has been missing hitherto among the set of available journal indicators. In this study, we investigate network indicators (betwe...
Loet Leydesdorff, Ismael Rafols
CANDC
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences
Background: The Z-curve is a three dimensional representation of DNA sequences proposed over a decade ago and has been extensively applied to sequence segmentation, horizontal gen...
Eran Elhaik, Dan Graur, Kresimir Josic