Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine (동의생리병리학회지)

The Physiological Society of Korean Medicine and The Society of Pathology in Korean Medicine (대한동의생리학회·한의병리학회)
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Proposal of a Mathematical Model for Variations in Repeated Measurement of Korean Medicine Clinical Variables and its Applicability to Education

한의학 변수들의 반복측정시 변동량에 대한 수학적 모형 제안 및 교육에의 적용 가능성

  • Hayeong, Jeong (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Gachon University) ;
  • Young-Kyu, Kwon (Division of Longevity and Biofunctional Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University) ;
  • Chang-Eop, Kim (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Gachon University)
  • 정하영 (가천대학교 한의과대학 생리학교실) ;
  • 권영규 (부산대학교 한의학전문대학원 양생기능의학교실) ;
  • 김창업 (가천대학교 한의과대학 생리학교실)
  • Received : 2022.01.20
  • Accepted : 2022.10.21
  • Published : 2022.10.25
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Abstract

In this study, we proposed a mathematical model that can explain the source of the observed variability of repeated measurement data collected in Korean medicine clinical practice, and conducted a pilot analysis to infer the source of these variability based on our model. Mathematical model was constructed by dividing the observed variations into three components: common time-dependent variations, signal shift, and measurement error. To show the applicability of our model in real data, we analyzed 20 repeated measurement data of Korean clinical indicators in graduate students of Pusan National University Graduate School of Korean Medicine. We showed how to infer each source of variations based on our model and also showed the limitation of inference given the acquired the dataset. On the basis of objective recognition of these source of the variability, we hope that quantitative investigations on these sources for each Korean medicine clinical indicator are made in the future, so that they can be used in the clinical and educational areas of Korean medicine.

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이 과제는 부산대학교 기본연구지원사업(2년)에 의하여 연구되었음.

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