Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R by Frans WillekensEnglish | PDF(Repost),EPUB | 2014 | 323 Pages | ISBN : 3319083821 | 33.64 MB
This book provides an introduction to multistate event history analysis. It is an extension of survival analysis, in which a single terminal event (endpoint) is considered and the time-to-event is studied. Multistate models focus on life histories or trajectories, conceptualized as sequences of states and sequences of transitions between states. Life histories are modeled as realizations of continuous-time Markov processes. The model parameters, transition rates, are estimated from data on event counts and populations at risk, using the statistical theory of counting processes.