Biograph (version 1.0)

OverviewTransitions: Overview of transitions

Description

Produces standard summary tables on transitions.

Usage

OverviewTransitions(survey, seq.ind, agetrans)
p.OverviewTransitions(data, path, file.in, file.out)

Arguments

survey

input data

seq.ind

individual state sequences

agetrans

Ages at the different transitions

data

Object produced by the OverviewTransitions function

path

Path to the folder where the tabulations should be saved

file.in

Name of input data file

file.out

Name of output file

Value

• Ttrans
  Number of transitions by origin and destination and censored cases by state occupied at time of censoring.
• meanage
  Mean age at transition by origin and destinatin and mean age at censoring.

Examples

data (GLHS)
 z <- Parameters (GLHS)
 ist <- statesequence.ind (GLHS)
 agetrans <- AgeTrans (GLHS)
 overviewT <- OverviewTransitions (GLHS, seq.ind=ist, agetrans)

  path1 <- getwd() # save output file in current directory
  p.OverviewTransitions (overviewT,path=path1,file.in="GLHS",file.out="transitions.out")