Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

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Text Mining for Patterns in Children’s Sleep Disorders Using STATISTICA Text Miner

Jennifer Thompson,     StatSoft, Inc., Tulsa, OK

Karen Spruyt, PhD,     The University of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pulmonary Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Chicago, IL

Contents

Setting Up the Analysis

Reviewing Results

Summary

Pediatric sleep disorders are highly underrecognized, but the field is rapidly growing. Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a common and highly prevalent condition in the pediatric age range, affecting up to 27 percent of children, with a median in the 10 percent to 12 percent range. Rather than being an “all or none” condition, SDB is traditionally perceived as encompassing a wide spectrum of clinical ...