Long-Tailed Duration Distributions for Disability in Aged People
Long-Tailed Duration Distributions for Disability in Aged People
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老年人残疾的长尾持续时间分布
DOI:
10.1143/jpsj.72.2409
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
M. Matsushita
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作者:
O. Moriyama;Hiroto Itoh;S. Matsushita;M. Matsushita
Long tails of the duration distributions for disabilities in the aged are analyzed. Log–normal distribution shows excellent fit with various data on the durations of disabilities, irrespective of their severity. Persisting long tails suggest the fractal nature of disability distributions. For approximately 60% of the patients, the duration distributions are also mimicked by the first passage time distribution (FPTD) of one-dimensional Brownian motion. The finding that the data fit the log–normal distribution very well and FPTD fairly well reveals disability for the aged to be a stochastic process of suffering successively from various endogenous diseases, i.e., multiple pathology.