Yen, Amy Ming-Fang; Chen, Tony Hsiu-Hsi - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 1, pp. 11-21
Although heterogeneity across individuals may be reduced when a two-state process is extended into a multi-state …, unobserved mixture distribution in the initial state and the effect of measured covariates on subsequent multi-state disease … subsequent multi-state transitions were identified using a homogeneous Markov model. The combination of both initial mixture …