Length of stay as a stochastic process: A general approach and application to hospitalization for schizophreniaFootnote†

This work was completed while Eaton was supported by NIMH grant #MH25691. We are grateful to Morton Kramer and Irving Goldberg of the NIMH Biometry Branch for granting us access to (unidentified) files of the Maryland Psychiatric Case Register. Figure 3 was redrawn from Tweedie (1957), and permission to reproduce it is thankfully acknowledged.

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