Research Article

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

Table 2

Correlation coefficients and values of variable pairs for the dataset.

Variable pairCorrelation coefficient value

No. of times pregnant and age0.550
No. of times pregnant and diastolic blood pressure0.210
No. of times pregnant and insulin0.110
No. of times pregnant and triceps skin fold thickness0.110
No. of times pregnant and plasma glucose concentration0.110
Plasma glucose concentration and insulin0.380
Plasma glucose concentration and age0.260
Plasma glucose concentration and BMI0.230
Plasma glucose concentration and diastolic blood pressure0.190
Plasma glucose concentration and triceps skin fold thickness0.180
Diastolic blood pressure and age0.330
Diastolic blood pressure and BMI0.280
Diastolic blood pressure and triceps skin fold thickness0.210
Triceps skin fold thickness and BMI0.530
Triceps skin fold thickness and insulin0.170
Triceps skin fold thickness and age0.130
Insulin and age0.180
Insulin and BMI0.170
BMI and diabetes pedigree function0.120