Date of Award
Summer 8-5-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mathematics and Statistics
First Advisor
Dr. Jiawei Liu
Second Advisor
Dr. Yichuan Zhao
Third Advisor
Dr. Xu Zhang
Abstract
It is an important step in clinical practice to discriminate real diseased patients from healthy persons. It would be great to get such discrimination from some common information like personal information, life style, and the contact with diseased patient. In this study, a score is calculated for each patient based on a survey through generalized linear model, and then the diseased status is decided according to previous sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) records. This study will facilitate clinics in grouping patients into real diseased or healthy, which in turn will affect the method clinics take to screen patients: complete screening for possible diseased patient and some common screening for potentially healthy persons.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2083714
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Hui, "Discrimination of High Risk and Low Risk Populations for the Treatment of STDs." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2083714