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Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

White, Ethan

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2011, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Computer Engineering.
Suicide has become a significantly prominent issue because high frequencies of occurrences make it one of the top three causes of death for young people in the United States. To prevent suicide attempts, it is important to identify suicidal tendencies in the behavior, speech, or writing of an individual as early as possible. This paper demonstrates one technique of analyzing written material to determine whether or not a person is in a suicidal state. Word frequencies were examined from both suicide and non-suicide documents and translated into inputs to a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM). The FCM determined whether the given input pattern was suicidal or non-suicidal. For the datasets examined, each set was correctly identified by the FCM as suicidal or non-suicidal.
Lawrence Mazlack, PhD (Committee Chair)
John P. Pestian, PhD (Committee Member)
Karen Davis, PhD (Committee Member)
Ali Minai, PhD (Committee Member)
142 p.

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  • White, E. (2011). Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307323791

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • White, Ethan. Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307323791.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • White, Ethan. "Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307323791

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)