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literature on classification methods

A review and comparison of classification algorithms for medical decision making.
Harper PR. Health Policy 2005;71:315-31 [PMUI:15694499]

Statistical approaches to classification. Methods for developing classification and other criteria rules.
Bloch DA, Moses LE, Michel BA. Arthritis Rheum 1990;33:1137-44. [PMID: 2202313]

for further information: contact Joop van de Merwe

Criteria for rheumatic disease. Different types and different functions. The American College of Rheumatology Diagnostic and Therapeutic Criteria Committee.
Fries JF, Hochberg MC, Medsger TA Jr, et al. Arthritis Rheum 1994;37:454-62. [PMUI: 7605403]

Classification Trees.
An introduction from Statsoft Inc.

Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification.
D. Michie, D.J. Spiegelhalter, C.C. Taylor (eds). See Chapter 2.
- the above book (originally published in 1994 by Ellis Horwood) is now out of print; the copyright now resides with the editors who have decided to make the material freely available on the web.

Classification criteria for Sjogren's syndrome: a revised version of the European criteria proposed by the American-European Consensus Group.
Vitali C, Bombardieri S, Jonsson R, Moutsopoulos HM, Alexander EL, Carsons SE, Daniels TE, Fox PC, Fox RI, Kassan SS, Pillemer SR, Talal N, Weisman MH; European Study Group on Classification Criteria for Sjogren's Syndrome. Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:554-8. [PMUI: 12006334]

Clinical manifestations correlated to the prevalence of autoantibodies in a large (n=321) cohort of patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome. A comparison of patients initially diagnosed according to the Copenhagen classification criteria with the American-European consensus criteria.
Locht H, Pelck R, Manthorpe R. Autoimmun Rev 2005;4:276-81
- the consequence of using the American-European Consensus criteria in daily clinical practice will lead to the exclusion of a considerable proportion of patients with classical features of primary Sjögren's syndrome

other useful papers on statistics

Clinical trials in urology: how many patients are required to achieve statistically significant results?
Parazzini F, Colli E, Chatenoud L, et al. BJU Int 2005;95:717-22

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