An unsupervised partition method based on association delineated revised mutual information

摘要

BackgroundThe syndrome is the basic pathological unit and the key concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the herbal remedy is prescribed according to the syndrome a patient catches. Nevertheless, few studies are dedicated to investigate the number of syndromes and what these syndromes are. Correlative measure based on mutual information can measure arbitrary statistical dependences between discrete and continuous variables.