An Application of Markov Processes to the Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disease
ResearchPublished 1954
A presentation of several methods (developed in studies of mental disease) for determining certain epidemiological parameters that are not directly observable or that can be secured only by expensive and time-consuming field surveys. The simple models of the process involved in the passage from sanity to insanity, hospitalization and death provide some picture of the underlying process that generates a given incidence rate.
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- Year: 1954
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- Paperback Pages: 51
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- Document Number: P-311
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Marshall, Andrew W. and Herbert Goldhamer, An Application of Markov Processes to the Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disease, RAND Corporation, P-311, 1954. As of October 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P311.html
Marshall, Andrew W. and Herbert Goldhamer, An Application of Markov Processes to the Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disease. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1954. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P311.html. Also available in print form.
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