PERFEX uses certainty factors to calculate the
probability of everything it pronounces upon. In this case it is the certainty
factor of whether or not this patient can be regarded as abnormal.
The certainty factors are in this case being translated to the following
expressions:
0.80 -> 1.00 : is. 0.40 -> 0.80 : probably is. 0.20 -> 0.40 : possibly is. -0.20 -> 0.20 : equivocally is.