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Small Area Statistics: Large Statistical Problems, Paula Diehr
Small Area Statistics: Large Statistical Problems, Paula Diehr
Paula Diehr
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Cluster Analysis To Determine Headache Types, Paula Diehr
Cluster Analysis To Determine Headache Types, Paula Diehr
Paula Diehr
Cluster analysis was used to separate 726 headache patients into clusters of patients with similar symptoms. This was done to answer two questions: what "naturally occurring' groups of patients can be found? And how do these groups correspond to traditional headache types? When only two clusters were required, the best two clusters were tension and migraine-like. However, eight clusters could also be distinguished, and the migraine group then became very small. The clusters were tested for clinical interpretability by having 12 physicians name and prescribe treatment for the clusters. The suggested treatment was similar to what patients had actually received …