The Use of the Discrimination Function to Analyze the Affecting Factors in the Premature Infants Life (An application in the Qurna General Hospital in Basrah 2014 )

Abstract

The method of discriminatory analysis is one of the methods of data analysis of variables. It includes stage of classification and stage of discrimination. The main objective of the distinctive analysis method is to construct a base derived from the attributes that the observations carry grouped into two or more groups for a particular sample . So that we can judge by this rule on a new single return base return to the other one. The data gathered together about two communities the first community of premature infants who survived .The second community is premature infants who have died ,by using the hotling T ^ 2 test . It was identified that there were significant differences between the two groups. Contrast analysis was used to identify the fact that the parameters used, to describe two communities of the preterm infants: the living and the dead .It is a significant parameters in addition to the use of more than one way to identify any parameters .The study concluded that independent variables . The weight of the preterm child in gram, the premature child age (one week), mother 's age , the survival of the preterm baby in incubation for days,gender : 1 male ,2 female ,type of birth :0 caesarean, 1 normal),and the type of disease. All of these have a significant effect and the most important variables are weight and age (per week) )at birth. The ratio of efficiency of classification in Qurna general hospital 74.5% in general . The rate of correct classification efficiency for preterm infants was 76.4%. The rate of correct classification efficiency for preterm dead infants 59.1%. These ratios support the method of differential analysis in prediction as well as the estimation of the function of differentiation between the community of living preterm infants and the community of dead premature infants