Open AccessAnalysing violent incidents and other events
Author(s) -
RabeHesketh S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of methods in psychiatric research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.275
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1557-0657
pISSN - 1049-8931
DOI - 10.1002/mpr.50
Subject(s) - poisson distribution , psychology , computer science , data science , statistics , mathematics
The paper discusses the analysis of recurrent events such as violent incidents in psychiatric hospitals. Many methods used to analyse such data fail to take account of length of follow‐up, individual differences between patients and correlations between events linked to the same patient. Random effects Poisson models and other methods that may be used to address these issues are described. All proposed methods are illustrated by applying them to a previously published dataset. Copyright © 1998 Whurr Publishers Ltd.