Flexible Nonhomogeneous Markov Models for Panel Observed Data

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 780-787

  Titman, Andrew C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B splines; Differential equations; Multi state model; Nonhomogeneous Markov model; Panel observation

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

B SPLINES; KOLMOGOROV; MARKOV MODELING; MULTI-STATE MODEL; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NONHOMOGENEOUS MARKOV MODEL; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OBSERVED DATA; PANEL OBSERVATION; TRANSITION INTENSITY;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 80052810928     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01550.x     Document Type: Article

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