Research Article

Improved Functional Causal Likelihood-Based Causal Discovery Method for Diabetes Risk Factors

Table 1

Correlation coefficients and values of variable pairs for the dataset.

Variable pairCorrelation coefficient value

No. of times pregnant and age0.560
No. of times pregnant and diastolic blood pressure0.210
No. of times pregnant and insulin0.140
No. of times pregnant and triceps skin fold thickness0.110.003
No. of times pregnant and plasma glucose concentration0.110.001
Plasma glucose concentration and insulin0.380
Plasma glucose concentration and age0.270
Plasma glucose concentration and BMI0.230
Plasma glucose concentration and diastolic blood pressure0.210
Plasma glucose concentration and triceps skin fold thickness0.170
Plasma glucose concentration and diabetes pedigree function0.100.005
Diastolic blood pressure and age0.330
Diastolic blood pressure and BMI0.280
Diastolic blood pressure and triceps skin fold thickness0.200
Diastolic blood pressure and insulin0.100.005
Triceps skin fold thickness and BMI0.540
Triceps skin fold thickness and insulin0.160
Triceps skin fold thickness and age0.120.001
Insulin and age0.190
Insulin and BMI0.170
BMI and diabetes pedigree function0.120.001