Research Article

Identification of Potential Type II Diabetes in a Chinese Population with a Sensitive Decision Tree Approach

Table 2

The 19 rules extracted through the decision tree.

R1: IF and , THEN class: person is nondiabetic (4542)
R2: IF and and with a family history of diabetes, THEN class: person is diabetic (89)
R3: IF and and with a family history of diabetes, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (8)
R4: IF and and without a family history of diabetes, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (576)
R5: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, with work-related stress, and without physical activity, THEN class: person is diabetic (21)
R6: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, with work-related stress, and with physical activity, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (22)
R7: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, without work-related stress, without hypertension, and without history of cardiovascular disease or stroke, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (330)
R8: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, without work-related stress, without hypertension, and with history of cardiovascular disease or stroke, THEN class: person is diabetic (18)
R9: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, without work-related stress, with hypertension, and without physical activity, THEN class: person is diabetic (7)
R10: IF and , without a family history of diabetes, without work-related stress, with hypertension, and with physical activity, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (19)
R11: IF and and without work-related stress, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (59)
R12: IF and and with work-related stress, THEN class: person is diabetic (517)
R13: IF and and with physical activity, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (275)
R14: IF and , without physical activity, and without salty food preference, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (313)
R15: IF and , without physical activity, with salty food preference, and with work-related stress, THEN class: person is diabetic (56)
R16: IF and , without physical activity, with salty food preference, without work-related stress, and with hypertension, THEN class: person is diabetic (90)
R17: IF and , without physical activity, with salty food preference, without work-related stress, without hypertension, and men, THEN class: person is diabetic (94)
R18: IF and , without physical activity, with salty food preference, without work-related stress, without hypertension, women, and with history of cardiovascular disease or stroke, THEN class: person is diabetic (14)
R19: IF and , without physical activity, with salty food preference, without work-related stress, without hypertension, women, and without history of cardiovascular disease or stroke, THEN class: person is nondiabetic (124)

R: abbreviation of rule.