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. 2015 Jan 27;17(1):e29. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4082

Table 4.

Attributes used to predict whether the most frequently queried disease is the one afflicting the user.

Index Attribute
1 The number of times queried for the most common diseases.
2 The number of times queried for the second most common diseases.
3 The ratio between the above two.
4 The fraction of users who asked about the most common disease queried by the user.
5 The number of diseases that were asked about more than once.
6 The number of diseases that were asked about more than five times.
7 The number of diseases that were asked about more than 10 times.
8 Indication of queries for drugs related to the most common disease queried by the user: Let M be a matrix of co-occurring diseases and drugs, where Mi,j is the number of users who asked about disease i and also about drug j, and let D be a matrix of queries for each disease, where Dij is whether user i asked about drug j, we compute an indicator of whether the user asked about drugs related to the most common disease they asked about, by multiplying the row vector of D for each user by the matrix M.