Visual Agreement Analyses of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Multiple-Dimensional Scaling Approach
Joint Authors
Lo, Lun-Chien
Cheng, Tsung-Lin
Shieh, Pei-Shuan
Chiang, John Y.
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-09-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The study of TCM agreement in terms of a powerful statistical tool becomes critical in providing objective evaluations.
Several previous studies have conducted on the issue of consistency of TCM, and the results have indicated that agreements are low.
Traditional agreement measures only provide a single value which is not sufficient to justify if the agreement among several raters is strong or not.
In light of this observation, a novel visual agreement analysis for TCM via multiple dimensional scaling (MDS) is proposed in this study.
If there are clusters present in the raters in a latent manner, MDS can prove itself as an effective distinguisher.
In this study, a group of doctors, consisting of 11 experienced TCM practitioners having clinical experience ranging from 3 to 15 years with a mean of 5.5 years from the Chinese Medicine Department at Changhua Christian Hospital (CCH) in Taiwan were asked to diagnose a total of fifteen tongue images, the Eight Principles derived from the TCM theorem.
The results of statistical analysis show that, if there are clusters present in the raters in a latent manner, MDS can prove itself as an effective distinguisher.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lo, Lun-Chien& Chiang, John Y.& Cheng, Tsung-Lin& Shieh, Pei-Shuan. 2012. Visual Agreement Analyses of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Multiple-Dimensional Scaling Approach. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lo, Lun-Chien…[et al.]. Visual Agreement Analyses of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Multiple-Dimensional Scaling Approach. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-5.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Lo, Lun-Chien& Chiang, John Y.& Cheng, Tsung-Lin& Shieh, Pei-Shuan. Visual Agreement Analyses of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Multiple-Dimensional Scaling Approach. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1028375
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1028375