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Table 1 Word frequency for the seven most frequent symptomatic words expressed in the pool of narratives and their respective weighted percentages

From: Measuring diagnostic heterogeneity using text-mining of the lived experiences of patients

Word

Count

Weighted Percentage (%)

Depressive

7762

1.13

Anxiety

4661

0.68

Fears

1927

0.28

Hating

1909

0.28

suicides

1904

0.28

panics

1584

0.23

stressing

1457

0.21

  1. The count gives the number of occurrences of the stemmed word in the sample of 228 narratives. The percentage gives the frequency of the word relative to the total words counted – to get an estimate of the frequency of specific words narrated in the context of the overall number of words used