An Efficacy Predictive Method for Diabetic Ulcers Based on Higher-Order Markov Chain-Set Pair Analysis

Table 2

Experts’ judgment on importance of different symptoms according to the importance of each symptom.

Linguistic variables level	Value range
Very important
Important
Semi-important
Unimportant
Very unimportant

The experts evaluated the value range of the symptom weight. The larger the score is, the more important the corresponding symptom index is in the curative effect evaluation.