Lemuye, Elias (2011) HIV Status Predictive Modeling Using Data Mining Technology. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
AIDS is the disease caused by HIV, which weakens the body’s immune system until it can no longer fight off the simple infections that most healthy people’s immune system can resist. HIV/AIDS continues to be a major global health priority. Knowledge about HIV status helps both individual and community. In spite of the widely and freely available VCT centers in Addis Ababa, the benefits of knowledge of HIV status for both individuals and communities; most people often do not know their HIV status. One of the solutions for this problem is to predict the HIV status of the population using data mining techniques so as to find out the burden of the disease on the subsets of the population and prepare intervention programs. The purpose of this thesis is HIV status predictive modeling to support the scaling up of HIV testing in Addis Ababa. The CRISP-DM methodology is followed for HIV status predictive modeling and discovering association rules between HIV status and selected attributes. J48 and ID3 algorithms are experimented to build and evaluate the models. Apriori algorithm is used to discover association rules. SPSS version 16 and Microsoft excel are used for further preparation of the dataset and WEKA 3.6 is used as the data mining tool to implement the algorithms. Pruned J48 classifier that predicts HIV status with 81.8% accuracy is developed. Association rule mining has also revealed its potential in discovering the relationships of the selected attributes and HIV status.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2018 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2018 08:42 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6075 |
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