Using k-dependence causal forest to mine the most significant dependency relationships among clinical variables for thyroid disease diagnosis

• LiMin Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, ChangChun City 130012, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7742-669X

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• FangYuan Cao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, ChangChun City 130012, China

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• ShuangCheng Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Lixin Accounting Research Institute, Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce, Shanghai City 201620, China

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• MingHui Sun ,

  Roles Formal analysis

  * E-mail: smh@jlu.edu.cn (MHS); dongly@jlu.edu.cn (LYD)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, ChangChun City 130012, China

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• LiYan Dong

  Roles Resources

  * E-mail: smh@jlu.edu.cn (MHS); dongly@jlu.edu.cn (LYD)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, ChangChun City 130012, China

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