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Diagnostic apparatus

  • US 20040249777A1
  • Filed: 07/21/2004
  • Published: 12/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for determining a likely cause of one or more effects, the apparatus comprising means for receiving and/or accessing training data relating to previously-identified relationships between one or more causes and one or more effects, means for identifying a trend in said relationships and in the form of shape functions or polynomials which define quantified mappings between said one or more causes and one or more effects, each of said shape functions or polynomials being associated with each of a plurality of respective reference points, at least some of which have a weight value assigned thereto at least one of said weight values being an independent variable (“

  • primary weight”

    ) and at least one of said weight values being dependent on one or more of said primary weights (“

    secondary weight”

    ), and means for determining one or more likely causes of one or more given effects using said mappings.

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