Does length of hospital stay reflect power-law behavior? A q-Weibull density approach

Francisco Reyes-Santias, Juan Reboredo, Edilson Machado de Assis and Miguel A. Rivera-Castro

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2021, vol. 568, issue C

Abstract: This paper studies whether or not the distribution of the length of hospital stay data follows power-law probability. For hospitals differing in size and specialization, our evidence shows that length of stay is well fitted by power-law density, independently of hospital size. Moreover, failure rates differ across hospitals and are independent of hospital size and specialization.

Keywords: Length of stay; q-Weibull distribution; Failure rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.125618

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