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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2008 Jul 13;42(1):82–89. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.07.00

Table 3.

Attribute ranking scores according to the information gain and Relief individual attribute ranking algorithms. The lower the score, the stronger the attribute.

Information gain Relief
Avg reads 3 1.3
Orders entered 4.1 1.9
Avg writes 5.5 2.8
Age 10 4
Parent level 3 1 15.7
Merged parent level 5.4 10.5
Parent level 2 7 9.4
HR specialty 12 5
Age group 11 6.4
AHFS class 8 13.1
Parent level 1 13 10.7
Years of practice 17 7
HR discipline 14.9 11.3
HELP2 discipline 16 14.6
Merged specialty 14.1 17
Merged discipline 18.1 18.9
HELP2 specialty 19.4 18.5
Medications 19.5 21.4
Problems 22.7 19.6
Maintenance drug 21.9 21.6
Gender 21.4 23
DEA class code 24 24
Drug class code 25 26
Task 26 25