title: The ordered logistic regression model in psychiatry: rising prevalence of dementia in old people's homes.
abstract: Ordered logistic regression is an extension of binary logistic regression, and is particularly well suited to the analysis of many psychiatric scores. Its use is demonstrated in a pair of linked cross-sectional surveys of dementia in residents of old people's homes, first to model the association of dementia with demographic characteristics, and then to explore possible reasons for a rise in the prevalence of dementia in the homes over a four-year period.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, The University, Liverpool, U.K.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ashby
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ames
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015995:Prevalence; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D006113:United Kingdom