Comparison of Methods for Estimating Temporal Topic Models From Primary Care Clinical Text Data: Retrospective Closed Cohort Study

Christopher Meaney   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Michael Escobar   ¹ , PhD ;   Therese A Stukel   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Peter C Austin   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Liisa Jaakkimainen   ^{2, 3, 4} , MSc, MD

¹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada