Research Article

Detection of Herb-Symptom Associations from Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Data

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NetCorrA model; that is, NetCorrA: when we calculate the correlation between one herb and one symptom, we consider the neighbourhood of the herb (besides the herb itself) with significant shared efficacies as the expended herb set. We treated the expended herb set as the surrogate entity of herb to calculate the association between symptoms and herbs.