Xie, H.; Chaussalet, T. J.; Millard, P. H. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 168 (2005) 1, pp. 51-61
The paper develops a Markov model in continuous time for the length of stay of elderly people moving within and between residential home care and nursing home care. A procedure to determine the structure of the model and to estimate parameters by maximum likelihood is presented. The modelling...