Estimating life expectancy in health and ill health by using a hidden markov model

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-465

  Van Den Hout, Ardo ^a   Jagger, Carol ^b   Matthews, Fiona E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Goodness of fit; Hidden Markov model; Life expectancy; Misclassification; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849121399     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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