Incorporating Topic Assignment Constraint and Topic Correlation Limitation into Clinical Goal Discovering for Clinical Pathway Mining

Table 2

Meanings of the notations.

Notation	Meaning
	The set of clinical days
	The set of clinical activities
	The set of topics assigned to
	The number of clinical days and topics
	The number of unique clinical activities
	The number of clinical activities in dth clinical day
	The number of clinical activities that are assigned; topic
	The number of groups (unique clinical activities); in dth clinical day
	The number of clinical activities in gth group in; dth clinical day
	The ith clinical activities in dth clinical day
	The topic for
	The clinical activities of gth group in dth clinical day
	The jth clinical activity in gth group in dth clinical day
	The topic for
	, the set of topics for gth group in dth; clinical day
	The number of clinical activities that are assigned; topic in dth clinical day
	The number of clinical activities with value and topic
	The number of clinical activities that are assigned topic in dth clinical day, except gth group in dth clinical day
	The number of clinical activities with value and; topic , except gth group in dth clinical day
	Dirichlet prior vector
	Multinomial distribution over clinical activities; and topics
	Multinomial distribution over clinical activities for; topic
	Multinomial distribution over topics for dth clinical day