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Eleven callables operationalising Goffman's "total institution" framework (Goffman 1961) on the OTIS dataset:

Details

  • morie_otis_repeat_placement_concentration(b09)

  • morie_otis_within_year_placement_count(b01)

  • morie_otis_within_year_region_diversity(b01)

  • morie_otis_mortification_cooccurrence(b01)

  • morie_otis_disciplinary_medical_overlap(b01)

  • morie_otis_embedding_distribution(b02)

  • morie_otis_intra_year_transition_matrix(a01)

  • morie_otis_path_complexity_gini(b01)

  • morie_otis_region_alert_state_richness(b01)

  • morie_otis_regC_demog_contingency(b01)

  • morie_otis_irr_glmm_vm(b01): Poisson + NB2 IRR (requires MASS for the negative-binomial fit; falls back to Poisson-only when MASS is unavailable).

All metrics are intra-fiscal-year by construction. OTIS UniqueIndividual_ID is anonymised as YYYY-XXXXX-AA, randomly reassigned each fiscal year and each dataset file, so longitudinal individual-level and cross-dataset linkage are impossible by design (see docs/methods/otis_linkage.md). The variable_taxonomy.R registry enforces this with cross_year_safe = FALSE.

References

Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Anchor Books.

Hill, B. M. (1975). A simple general approach to inference about the tail of a distribution. The Annals of Statistics, 3(5), 1163-1174.

Clauset, A., Shalizi, C. R., & Newman, M. E. J. (2009). Power-law distributions in empirical data. SIAM Review, 51(4), 661-703.