Forecasting the free cortisol levels after awakening based on high-order fuzzy logical relationship
P. Senthil Kumar, B. Mohamed Harif, A. Alice Nithya · Arya Bhatta Journal of Mathematics and Informatics · 2015
People usually use many methods to predict the weather, the temperature, the stock index, the enrollments, the earthquake, the economy, etc. A growing body of data suggests that a significantly enhanced salivary cortisol response to waking may indicate an enduring tendency to abnormal cortisol regulation. Based on these forecasting results, our objective was to apply the response test to a population already known to have long-term hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical (HPA) axis dysregulation. We hypothesized that the free cortisol response to waking, believed to be genetically influenced, would be elevated in a significant percent age of cases, regard less of the afternoon Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) value based on high-order fuzzy logical relationships. First, the proposed method fuzzifies the historical data into fuzzy sets to form high-order fuzzy logical relationships. Then, it calculates the value of the variable between the subscripts of adjacent fuzzy sets appearing in the antecedents of high-order fuzzy logical relationships. Then, it lets the high-order fuzzy logical relationships with the same variable value form a high-order fuzzy logical relationship group. Finally, it chooses a high order fuzzy logical relationships group to forecast the free cortisol response to walking and the short day time profile.