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...at when the last stage (stage 4 in my data) gets repeated it seems to give me a warning message. although, it picks only one observation whereas there might be other such cases in the data (printing only the first case?) > out1.msm2 <-msm(stage~years,subject=patient,data=mydata2,qmatrix=new.twoway9.q,con trol=list(trace=1,report=1),covariates=~black+tport11,constraint=list(bl ack=c(1,1,1),tport11=c(1,1,1))) ... Warning message: Absorbing - absorbing transition at observation 30 in: msm.check.model(msmdata$fromstate, msmdata$tostate, msmdata$obs, My data at observation around 30 look like (...