This paper examines factors influencing a patient's choice of provider for outpatient health care services in Jordan. Factors including demographic, socioeconomic, insurance status, quality of care, household size and cost of health care were studied using a multinomial logit model applied to a sample of 1031 outpatients from the Jordan heathcare utilization and expenditure survey, 2000. The pa...

The application of compositional data analysis through log ratio transformations corresponds to a multinomial logit model for the shares themselves. This model is characterized by the property of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA). IIA states that the odds ratio –in this case the ratio of shares – is invariant to the addition or deletion of outcomes to the problem. It is exactly this...

Mode choice analysis has received the most attention among discrete choice problems in travel behavior literature. Most traditional mode choice models are based on the principle of random utility maximization derived from econometric theory. This paper investigates performance of mode choice analysis with classification methods decision trees, discriminant analysis and multinomial logit. Experi...

Even when information is made available through public campaigns, people may still retain inaccurate perceptions of environmental quality. We look at coastal water quality in Southern California via a telephone survey. Fewer than half of respondents are able to correctly rank two randomly chosen beaches in terms of water quality. A logit analysis of the rankings reveals that there are systemati...

background and purpose: identification of the effects of sleep disturbances on the quality of life could result in proper treatment of patients with heart failure. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep disorders and erectile dysfunction, depression and quality of life in male patients with systolic heart failure. methods: this correlational study was conducted on 100 ma...