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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">NO1-8</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.202001_18(1).0008</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Quantifying Disease Severity Of Cystic Fibrosis Using Quantile Regression Methods</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Denaro</surname>
            <given-names>Kameryn</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Teaching and Learning Research Center, University of California, Irvine</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bailey</surname>
            <given-names>Barbara A.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Conrad</surname>
            <given-names>Douglas J.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>148</fpage>
      <lpage>160</lpage>
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      <abstract>
        <p>This article presents a classification of disease severity for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is a genetic disease that dramatically decreases life expectancy and quality. The disease is characterized by polymicrobial infections which lead to lung remodeling and airway mucus plugging. In order to quantify disease severity of CF patients and compute a continuous severity index measure, quantile regression, rank scores, and corresponding normalized ranks are calculated for CF patients. Based on the rank scores calculated from the set of quantile regression models, a continuous severity index is computed for each CF patient and can be considered a robust estimate of CF disease severity.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Cystic Fibrosis</kwd>
        <kwd>FEV1</kwd>
        <kwd>quantile regression</kwd>
        <kwd>robust regression</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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