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  "id": 179317,
  "title": "Percent calculation method",
  "url": "/competitions/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/179317",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-09-02T04:53:50.452563500Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 7,
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  "content": "<p>What is the specific meaning of Percent in train.csv? Can you give me an example? Thank you.<br>\nMy understanding is the proportion of FVC of healthy people of the same age as the patient. For example, the FVC of the patient with ID00007637202177411956430 is 2315, Percent = the FVC of this patient divided by the FVC of healthy people with the same conditions = 58.2536487166583.<br>\nIs this understanding correct?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "994947",
      "postDate": "09/02/2020 04:53:50",
      "content": "<p>What is the specific meaning of Percent in train.csv? Can you give me an example? Thank you.<br>\nMy understanding is the proportion of FVC of healthy people of the same age as the patient. For example, the FVC of the patient with ID00007637202177411956430 is 2315, Percent = the FVC of this patient divided by the FVC of healthy people with the same conditions = 58.2536487166583.<br>\nIs this understanding correct?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What is the specific meaning of Percent in train.csv? Can you give me an example? Thank you.\nMy understanding is the proportion of FVC of healthy people of the same age as the patient. For example, the FVC of the patient with ID00007637202177411956430 is 2315, Percent = the FVC of this patient divided by the FVC of healthy people with the same conditions = 58.2536487166583.\nIs this understanding correct?",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "995594",
      "postDate": "09/02/2020 15:41:03",
      "content": "<p>From what I understand you're right. The percent represents how much percent of the normal lung with similar age and other physical factors a certain patient has. I guess in your example if for patient ID00007637202177411956430, his FVC of 2315 represents 58.25% that of normal person's FVC, the normal person with same conditions as him would have a FVC of about 3974.25. As you can see 2315 is 58.25% of 3974.25.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From what I understand you're right. The percent represents how much percent of the normal lung with similar age and other physical factors a certain patient has. I guess in your example if for patient ID00007637202177411956430, his FVC of 2315 represents 58.25% that of normal person's FVC, the normal person with same conditions as him would have a FVC of about 3974.25. As you can see 2315 is 58.25% of 3974.25.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "995727",
      "postDate": "09/02/2020 18:15:52",
      "content": "<p>Same understanding.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Same understanding.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "996011",
      "postDate": "09/03/2020 03:32:01",
      "content": "<p>You are correct. The percentage is the (patient FVC / predicted FVC) *100. There are different formula to calculate the predicted FVC, most are based on age, sex and height. This article [<a href=\"https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long\" target=\"_blank\">https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long</a>] (References values for forced spirometry. Group of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey) review the most common methods of calculating the predicted FVC.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You are correct. The percentage is the (patient FVC / predicted FVC) *100. There are different formula to calculate the predicted FVC, most are based on age, sex and height. This article [https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long] (References values for forced spirometry. Group of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey) review the most common methods of calculating the predicted FVC.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "996016",
      "postDate": "09/03/2020 03:39:03",
      "content": "<p>Hi! <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ybh2018\" target=\"_blank\">@ybh2018</a>, I have the same understanding, basically, this is the % of FVC vs a patient of similar characteristics but healthy</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi! @ybh2018, I have the same understanding, basically, this is the % of FVC vs a patient of similar characteristics but healthy",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "997544",
      "postDate": "09/04/2020 05:28:28",
      "content": "<p>thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "thank you.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "997549",
      "postDate": "09/04/2020 05:29:37",
      "content": "<p>thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "thank you.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "997554",
      "postDate": "09/04/2020 05:30:42",
      "content": "<p>Your explanation is easy to understand, thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Your explanation is easy to understand, thank you.",
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    }
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      "id": 995594,
      "author_name": "jonykarki",
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      "post_date": "09/02/2020 15:41:03",
      "content": "<p>From what I understand you're right. The percent represents how much percent of the normal lung with similar age and other physical factors a certain patient has. I guess in your example if for patient ID00007637202177411956430, his FVC of 2315 represents 58.25% that of normal person's FVC, the normal person with same conditions as him would have a FVC of about 3974.25. As you can see 2315 is 58.25% of 3974.25.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 995727,
          "author_name": "koza4ukdmitrij",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/02/2020 18:15:52",
          "content": "<p>Same understanding.</p>",
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        },
        {
          "id": 997554,
          "author_name": "ybh2018",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/04/2020 05:30:42",
          "content": "<p>Your explanation is easy to understand, thank you.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 996011,
      "author_name": "agentili",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/03/2020 03:32:01",
      "content": "<p>You are correct. The percentage is the (patient FVC / predicted FVC) *100. There are different formula to calculate the predicted FVC, most are based on age, sex and height. This article [<a href=\"https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long\" target=\"_blank\">https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long</a>] (References values for forced spirometry. Group of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey) review the most common methods of calculating the predicted FVC.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 997549,
          "author_name": "ybh2018",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/04/2020 05:29:37",
          "content": "<p>thank you.</p>",
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        }
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    {
      "id": 996016,
      "author_name": "cv13j0",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/03/2020 03:39:03",
      "content": "<p>Hi! <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ybh2018\" target=\"_blank\">@ybh2018</a>, I have the same understanding, basically, this is the % of FVC vs a patient of similar characteristics but healthy</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 997544,
          "author_name": "ybh2018",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/04/2020 05:28:28",
          "content": "<p>thank you.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
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    "994947": "What is the specific meaning of Percent in train.csv? Can you give me an example? Thank you.\nMy understanding is the proportion of FVC of healthy people of the same age as the patient. For example, the FVC of the patient with ID00007637202177411956430 is 2315, Percent = the FVC of this patient divided by the FVC of healthy people with the same conditions = 58.2536487166583.\nIs this understanding correct?",
    "995594": "From what I understand you're right. The percent represents how much percent of the normal lung with similar age and other physical factors a certain patient has. I guess in your example if for patient ID00007637202177411956430, his FVC of 2315 represents 58.25% that of normal person's FVC, the normal person with same conditions as him would have a FVC of about 3974.25. As you can see 2315 is 58.25% of 3974.25.",
    "995727": "Same understanding.",
    "996011": "You are correct. The percentage is the (patient FVC / predicted FVC) *100. There are different formula to calculate the predicted FVC, most are based on age, sex and height. This article [https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/11/6/1354.long] (References values for forced spirometry. Group of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey) review the most common methods of calculating the predicted FVC.",
    "996016": "Hi! @ybh2018, I have the same understanding, basically, this is the % of FVC vs a patient of similar characteristics but healthy",
    "997544": "thank you.",
    "997549": "thank you.",
    "997554": "Your explanation is easy to understand, thank you."
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