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Methods Inf Med 1978; 17(01): 1-10
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636611
CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING
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The Process of Medical Diagnosis: Routes of Mathematical Investigations

MATHEMATISCHE ASPEKTE DER MEDIZINISCHEN DIAGNOSESTELLUNG
P. Tautu
1   From the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Institute of Documentation, Information and Statistics Director: Prof. Dr. med. G. Wagner
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G. Wagner
1   From the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Institute of Documentation, Information and Statistics Director: Prof. Dr. med. G. Wagner
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This paper is an analysis of the most important mathematical aspects of medical diagnosis: logical probability, rationality and decision theory, gambling models, pattern analysis, hazy and fuzzy subsets theory and, finally, the stochastic inquiry process.

Diese Arbeit stellt eine Analyse der wichtigsten mathematischen Aspekte der medizinischen Diagnose dar: logische Wahrscheinlichkeiten, Entscheidungstheorie, spieltheoretische Modelle, Theorie der »hazy« und »fuzzy« Teilmengen, Musteranalyse sowie stochastische Untersuchungsprozesse.

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Fuzzy Subsets - Markov Processes with Incomplete Information - Pattern Analysis - Stochastic Decision Processes - Theory of Questionnaires

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stochastische Entscheidungsprozesse - Markov-Prozesse mit unvollständiger Information - »fuzzy« Teilmengen - Musteranalyse - Theorie der Fragebögen
 

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