Table 5 Comparison of causality strengths and ranks by the top-10 ranked pairs in the document frequency: The document frequency and causality strengths of both \( \alpha DCFC \) and dRiskKB have different range of values; so each value is scaled between zero and one
Disease Causality Pairs | Document Frequency | \( \alpha DCFC \) | dRiskKB | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | Rank | Causality Strength | Rank | Causality Strength | Rank | |||
Hepatitis C | → | Liver Diseases | 1.00 | 1 | 0.70 | 3 | 0.20 | 12 |
Hepatitis B | → | Carcinoma, Hepatocellular | 0.90 | 2 | 0.39 | 9 | 0.11 | 33 |
Aneurysm | → | Hemorrhage | 0.76 | 3 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 |
Hepatitis C | → | Carcinoma, Hepatocellular | 0.72 | 4 | 0.49 | 5 | 0.13 | 26 |
Thrombosis | → | Infarction | 0.63 | 5 | 0.53 | 4 | 0.41 | 4 |
Hepatitis B | → | Liver Diseases | 0.61 | 6 | 0.28 | 12 | 0.14 | 22 |
Rectal Neoplasms | → | Adenoma | 0.61 | 6 | 0.01 | 164 | 0.05 | 59 |
Glaucoma | → | Blindness | 0.59 | 8 | 0.89 | 2 | 0.08 | 45 |
Infarction | → | Heart Failure | 0.47 | 9 | 0.23 | 14 | 0.22 | 11 |
Hemorrhage | → | Stroke | 0.45 | 10 | 0.07 | 44 | 0.42 | 3 |