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Employing feature selection to establish effective decision making can thus assist in the identification of a patient\u2019s fall risk from limited data. This work therefore aims to supplement professional timed up and go assessment methods using sensor technology, entropy analysis, and statistical analysis. The results showed the different approach of applying logistic regression analysis to the inertial data on a fall-risk scale to allow medical practitioners to predict for high-risk patients. Logistic regression was also used to automatically select feature values and clinical judgment methods to explore the differences in decision making. We also calculate the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUC). Results indicated that permutation entropy and statistical features provided the best AUC values (all above 0.9), and false positives were avoided. Additionally, the weighted-permutation entropy\/statistical features test has a relatively good agreement rate with the short-form Berg balance scale when classifying patients as being at risk. 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