The dynamic interdependence in the demand of primary and emergency secondary care: A hidden Markov approach
初级医疗与急诊二级医疗需求的动态相互依赖:隐马尔可夫方法
Summary This paper develops an extension of the class of finite mixture models for longitudinal count data to the bivariate case by using a hidden Markov chain approach. The model allows for disentangling unobservable time‐varying heterogeneity from the dynamic effect of utilisation of primary and secondary care and measuring their potential substitution effect. Three points of supports adequately describe the distribution of the latent states suggesting the existence of…