A piecewise transition model for analyzing multistate life history data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 385-400

  Chen, Pai Lien ^a   Sen, Pranab Kumar ^b  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochran Mantel Haenszel statistic; Markov process; Partition; Piecewise transition intensity; Quasi scoring algorithm; Validation procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130222     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00226-2     Document Type: Article

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