Peking University, China.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2013 Oct;112(1):16-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.05.016. Epub 2013 Jul 16.
In the clinical practice of psychology and psychiatry, presence or absence of particular disorder or syndromes is based on the subjective interpretation of mental and behavioral descriptions offered by the patient. This is often done by questionnaires (also called instruments or scales) or by interviews. This subjectivity of the diagnostic decision-making process may limit the reliability of diagnosis. In the present study, a new method of scale relevance, based on double cluster analysis, is proposed as it is important to verify what we are trying to find with the proposed scale. If two data sets cluster differently, we must consider them as different.
在心理学和精神病学的临床实践中，特定障碍或综合征的存在与否是基于患者提供的心理和行为描述的主观解释。这通常通过问卷（也称为工具或量表）或访谈来完成。诊断决策过程的这种主观性可能会限制诊断的可靠性。在本研究中，提出了一种基于双重聚类分析的新量表相关性方法，因为验证我们试图用提出的量表找到什么是很重要的。如果两个数据集聚类不同，我们必须将它们视为不同的。
