On the use of statistics for representing the knowledge acquired from experts in a medical consulting system.

For making medical consulting systems, it is important and significant to select and devise the method for representing the knowledge acquired from professional experts. As quantities of data required for consultation are increasing according to the progress of medical science, we have to introduce some new kinds of statistics into a medical consultation system. From another point of view, since the process of diagnosis of experts is considered to be a kind of effective model for compressing (or condensing) data quantitatively and qualitatively, we discuss the use of statistics for representing the knowledge acquired from experts from the standpoint of data compression.