- From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:53:26 -0500
- To: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <530DE3C6.1020801@cs.umbc.edu>
In our research on interpreting tables and generating LOD from them, we've been looking tables that represent medical clinical trials. The attached pdf document shows some in medical journal articles. I've not yet found a good source of CSV files for such tables, but I'm confident that there we can find many examples. These represent another class of examples where the table does not fit well into the simple relational example where each row in the table represents an entity and the columns map to entity properties. Here's a sketch of the format, which is very common for clinical trials. The table describes a clinical trial as a whole. Each row is one subset of the subjects which can overlap with other subsets. The first column or two columns specify a property (e.g., sex, age, died) and value or value range (e.g., male, <10) of the subsets. The other columns describe different treatments (e.g., drug a, drug b, placibo) and their values are often the number of patients and/or their percentage of overall population. The tables can get more complex, but they seem to follow a few common patterns which I assume you learn in your first year in medical school.
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- application/pdf attachment: medicalTablesExamples.pdf
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