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A transition rate model for first admissions to psychiatric institutions
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. a.j.oldehinkel@med.rug.nl
Statistics in Medicine
|June 23, 1999
Abstract:
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.