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SUBMITTER: Erosheva EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3115782 | biostudies-other | 2007
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Erosheva Elena A EA Fienberg Stephen E SE Joutard Cyrille C
The annals of applied statistics 20070101 2
Data on functional disability are of widespread policy interest in the United States, especially with respect to planning for Medicare and Social Security for a growing population of elderly adults. We consider an extract of functional disability data from the National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) and attempt to develop disability profiles using variations of the Grade of Membership (GoM) model. We first describe GoM as an individual-level mixture model that allows individuals to have partial m ...[more]