Latent Markov model for longitudinal binary data: an application to the performance evaluation of nursing homes

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS230zbMath1166.62330arXiv0908.2300MaRDI QIDQ2270663

Giorgio E. Montanari, Francesco Bartolucci, Monia Lupparelli

Publication date: 29 July 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2300

zbMATH Keywords

item response theory; EM algorithm; latent variable models; hidden Markov chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62H05: Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas

90B90: Case-oriented studies in operations research

92C50: Medical applications (general)

60J20: Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)

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