Biograph.msm: Biograph to msm format

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Description

Converts Biograph object to input data for msm package (long format)

Usage

Biograph.msm(Bdata)

Arguments

Bdata

Biography object

Value

Data frame with data in msm format

Author(s)

Frans Willekens

References

Jackson, C. (2011). Multi-state models for panel data: the msm package for R. Journal of Statistical Software, 38(8), 28 pp.

Jackson, C. (2013). msm: Multi-state Markov and hidden Markov models in continuous time. Available at the CRAN repository.

Examples

 data(GLHS)
 D <- Biograph.msm (GLHS)
 # Function statetable.msm of msm package
 require(msm)
 statetable.msm(state,ID,data=D)

Example output

[1] . . . . .  running reshape  . . . . . 
[1]  . . .  . Adjusting long format  . . . . 
Loading required package: msm
    to
from   1   2
   1  59 323
   2 181 419

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