Truncated negative binomial mixed regression modelling of ischaemic stroke hospitalizations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1129-1139

  Lee, Andy H ^a   Wang, K ^a   Yau, Kelvin K W ^b   Somerford, Peter J ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Health Information Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ischaemic stroke; Overdispersion; Positive count data; Random effects; Truncated poisson; Zero truncated negative binomial

Indexed keywords

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT READMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037446013     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1419     Document Type: Review

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