[R] MSM modeling and transition rates in R

2006-09-28 Thread Im, Kelly
Greetings, I'm using MSM (mutli-state markov modeling) package to study the progression of fibrosis in U.S hepatitis C population. I find this is a very fascinating tool for an applied researcher like myself. I have a four stage progression only model without any absorbing stage, also

[R] simple random cluster sampling - bootstrapping

2006-11-06 Thread Im, Kelly
Hello all, I have 300 clusters of fixed size 2 and I need to do resampling with replacement to run some regression models. I've searched through the archive and the only thing I found was that I could use 'boot()' function. but it's not clear to me how I can do this. Has anyone done it? I would

Re: [R] stacking the data elements in the list

2006-11-07 Thread Im, Kelly
Hello, I have a (rather simple) data manipulation question.. I have a list with many datasets within, each dataset has observations in a format which looks like id x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 y1 y2 y3 y4 y5 y6 how can I stack them so that it'll be id x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 id y1 y2 y3 y4 y5 y6 for each

Re: [R] question on MSM warning message

2006-11-13 Thread Im, Kelly
Hello After (simple random cluster) resampling with replacement I ran MSM function and I'm getting the following warning message ,which I'm not sure why. I don't have any absorbing stage set up in my MSM model. I have a 4 stage uni-directional MSM model. The only thing I see might be a problem is