Persistent disturbing behavior (PDB) refers to a chronic condition in therapy-resistant psychiatric patients. Since these patients are highly unstable and difficult to maintain in their natural living environment and even in hospital wards, it is important to properly characterize this group....

In the conventional linear mixed-effects model, four structures can be distinguished: fixed effects, random effects, measurement error and serial correlation. The latter captures the phenomenon that the correlation structure within a subject depends on the time lag between two measurements....

"Persistent disturbing behaviour" refers to a chronic condition in highly unstable, therapy resistant psychiatric patients. Because these patients are difficult to maintain in their natural living environment and even in hospital wards, purposely designed residential psychiatric facilities need...