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An Application of Markov Processes to the Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disease

Andy W. Marshall and Herbert Goldhamer

1954

RAND Corporation

“A presentation of several methods (developed in studies of mental disease) for determining certain epidemiological parameters that are not directly observable or that can be secured only by expensive and time-consuming field surveys. The simple models of the process involved in the passage from sanity to insanity, hospitalization and death provide some picture of the underlying process that generates a given incidence rate.”