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Profile identification via weighted related metric scaling : an application to dependent Spanish children
Albarrán, Irene; Alonso, Pablo; Grané, Aurea - Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad Carlos III de … - 2011
Disability and dependency (lack of autonomy in performing common everyday actions) affect health status and quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371387
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Dependency evolution in Spanish disabled population : a functional data analysis approach
Lozano, Irene Albarrán; González, Pablo Alonso; Gil, … - Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad Carlos III de … - 2013
In a health context dependency is defined as lack of autonomy in performing basic activities of daily living that require the care of another person or significant help. However, this contingency, if present, changes throughout the lifetime. In fact, empirical evidence shows that, once this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861887
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Non-linear models of disability and age applied to census data
Albarrán, Irene; Alonso, Pablo J.; Marín, Juan Miguel - Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad Carlos III de … - 2010
, the more level of disability he/she suffers. However, empirical evidence shows that this assessment is not always true, or … at least, it is not true in the Spanish population. This study tries to assess the impact of age on disability in Spain …. It is divided into three different parts. The first one is focused in describing the way disability is measured in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577392