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A transition rate model for first admissions to psychiatric institutions
Author(s) -
Oldehinkel Albertine J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990515)18:9<1111::aid-sim102>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - duration (music) , covariate , logistic regression , parametric statistics , parametric model , demography , medicine , econometrics , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , sociology , art , literature
This paper describes the application of a parametric transition rate model, the generalized log‐logistic model, to the duration of first admissions to psychiatric institutions. The final model included diagnosis, gender, age, living conditions and year of admission as covariates. Characteristics of the log‐logistic model are described extensively. Parametric transition models offer challenging and promising possibilities to model duration of hospital stay. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.