Towards Argumentation for Statistical Model Selection

Sassoon, I., Keppens, J. and McBurney, P.

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computation Models of Argumentation. 67-74.

September 2014

Abstract

The increase in routine clinical data collection coupled with an expectation to exploit this in support of evidence based decision making creates the require- ment for a system to support clinicians in this analysis. This paper looks at applying argumentation to this problem, by collating all the relevant statistical approaches and their assumptions into a statistical knowledge base and then representing the model selection process through argumentation. This will form the foundation for the development of a prototype that will enable clinicians to answer their research questions with no statistics, informatics or administrative support.

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DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-436-7-67