The ordered logistic regression model in psychiatry: Rising prevalence of dementia in old people's homes | Zendy

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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.

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