因子分析在中医针灸临床数据分析中的应用研究

An Application Study of Factor Analysis in TCM Acupuncture Clinical Data Analysis

摘要: 中医针灸在中国历史悠久，但针对治疗同种疾病所用穴位之间的关联程度和贡献率方面的分析鲜有报道。针对挖掘临床数据是否存在内在联系这一课题，提出将因子分析应用在临床数据分析领域的设想，通过对大量针灸文献资料记载的面神经麻痹疾病的治疗案例的实际分析了不同穴位对同一种疾病治疗效果的影响程度以及它们潜在的意义上的内在联系，研究结果表明临床数据之间存在一定的相关性，并得出因子分析可以应用于针灸临床数据分析这一结论。

Abstract: TCM acupuncture has a long history in China, but analysis about aspects of related degrees and contributed ratios among acupuncture points used to treat the same disease is seldom reported. To find if there are some correlations in clinical data, factor is applied in analysis of clinical data. Through actual analysis of the treatment cases for the disease of facioplegia recorded in a large number of the acupuncture literature materials, the influence degrees and potential relations in meanings of statistics among the different acupuncture points for treatment effects of the same disease have been exposed. The result shows the correlation in clinical data and arrival at a conclusion that factor analysis can be applied in analysis of clinical data.