60 20 100 200 300 Length of hospital stay e 4.3 The distribution of length of stay in hospital (LOS). Source: Data from Yoshida et al. ). Reproduced by permission of the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. Number of patients
Inverse Normal Distribution
The method used for finding the corresponding z-critical value in a normal distribution using the known probability is said to be an inverse normal distribution. The inverse normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with a family of two parameters.
Mean, Median, Mode
It is a descriptive summary of a data set. It can be defined by using some of the measures. The central tendencies do not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset. However, they give a summary of the data set. The central tendency or measure of central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Z-Scores
A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
The histogram in Figure 4.3 shows the length of stay (LOS) in days, in a hospital, and its relationship with the Patient Centred Assessment Method (PCAM), and is taken from a prospective cohort study to assess the usefulness of PCAM to measure LOS. How would you describe the shape of this distribution?
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