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

Tutorial Z

The InFLUence Model

Web Crawling, Text Mining, and Predictive Analysis with 2010–2011 Influenza Guidelines—CDC, IDSA, WHO, and FMC

Benjamin R. Mayer, DO, Linda A. Miner, PhD, Gary D. Miner, PhD, Edward E. Rylander, MD and Kristoffer Crawford, MD,     In His Image Family Medical Residency Program, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Contents

Abstract

Web Crawling and Text Mining of CDC documents on Flu

Feature Selection

MARSplines Interactive Module Modeling

Boosted Trees

Naïve Bayes Modeling

K-Nearest Neighbors

Abstract

The challenge to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections has for decades led to missed diagnoses and unwarranted uses of medications. Influenza annually presents doctors with questions of using antibiotics instead of more ...