Comparison of methods for modelling a count outcome with excess zeros: Application to Activities of Daily Living (ADL-s)

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 205-210

  Zaninotto, Paola ^a   Falaschetti, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LOGISTICS; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE;

EID: 79951615488     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.079640     Document Type: Article

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