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The ordered logistic regression model in psychiatry: Rising prevalence of dementia in old people's homes
Author(s) -
Ashby Deborah,
West Christopher R.,
Ames David
Publication year - 1989
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/sim.4780081104
Subject(s) - logistic regression , dementia , demography , psychiatry , medicine , cross sectional study , gerontology , psychology , sociology , disease , pathology
Ordered logistic regression is an extension of binary logistic regression, and is particularly well suited to the analysis of many psychiatric scores. Its use is demonstrated in a pair of linked cross‐sectional surveys of dementia in residents of old people's homes, first to model the association of dementia with demographic characteristics, and then to explore possible reasons for a rise in the prevalence of dementia in the homes over a four‐year period.