The re-parameterized inverse Gaussian regression to model length of stay of COVID-19 patients in the public health care system of Piracicaba, Brazil

E. M. Hashimoto, E. M. M. Ortega, G. M. Cordeiro, V. G. Cancho and I. Silva

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023, vol. 50, issue 8, 1665-1685

Abstract: Among the models applied to analyze survival data, a standout is the inverse Gaussian distribution, which belongs to the class of models to analyze positive asymmetric data. However, the variance of this distribution depends on two parameters, which prevents establishing a functional relation with a linear predictor when the assumption of constant variance does not hold. In this context, the aim of this paper is to re-parameterize the inverse Gaussian distribution to enable establishing an association between a linear predictor and the variance. We propose deviance residuals to verify the model assumptions. Some simulations indicate that the distribution of these residuals approaches the standard normal distribution and the mean squared errors of the estimators are small for large samples. Further, we fit the new model to hospitalization times of COVID-19 patients in Piracicaba (Brazil) which indicates that men spend more time hospitalized than women, and this pattern is more pronounced for individuals older than 60 years. The re-parameterized inverse Gaussian model proved to be a good alternative to analyze censored data with non-constant variance.

Date: 2023
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