Many classi®cation tasks can be viewed as ordinal. Use of numeric information usually provides possibilities for more powerful analysis than ordinal data. On the other hand, ordinal data allows more powerful analysis when compared to nominal data. It is therefore important not to overlook knowledge about ordinal dependencies in data sets used in data mining. This paper investigates data mining ...

Though a reduced flush response to niacin has been found in schizophrenic patients, whether it is a vulnerability indicator to schizophrenia remains little known. We aimed to examine the familial aggregation in niacin flush response among schizophrenic patients and their nonpsychotic relatives. In a sample of 153 schizophrenia probands, 217 parents, 70 siblings, and 94 normal subjects, 3 concen...

Introduction: Musculoskeletal pain accompanied by psychological problem lead to reduce the efficiency of adolescents; so, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and its association with psychological factors among female adolescents. Materials and methods: The target population of this cross sectional study was female students (3625 in total) from both private...

In clinical trials and other follow-up studies, it is natural that a response variable is repeatedly measured during follow-up and the occurrence of some key event is also monitored. There has been a considerable study on the joint modelling these measures together with information on covariates. But most of the studies are related to continuous outcomes. In many situations instead of observing...

The performance of medical image classification has been enhanced by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are typically trained with cross-entropy (CE) loss. However, when the label presents an intrinsic ordinal property in nature, e.g., development from benign to malignant tumor, CE loss cannot take into account such information allow for better generalization. To improve model gen...

Combinatorics coding is a new data coding method based on combinatorics. Ordinal computing is the core technology of in the combinatorics coding. Ordinal properties of combinatorics coding is studied in this paper. Firstly, the combinatorics coding theory and the correlative basic concepts are described. Then, the properties of the ordinal are revealed. The study indicates that the value of ord...

Recently, Schlicht and Stephan lifted the notion of automatic-structures to the notion of (finite-word) ordinal-automatic structures. These are structures whose domain and relations can be represented by automata reading finite words whose shape is some fixed ordinal α. We lift Delhommé’s relative-growth-technique from the automatic and tree-automatic setting to the ordinal-automatic setting. T...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal studies with ordinal repeated outcomes are now widespread in epidemiology and clinical research. The statistical analysis of these studies combines two difficulties: the choice of the best ordinal model and taking into account correlations for within-subject responses. METHODS Random-effect models are of particular value in this context and we propose here a fitting st...