R help - Sep 2005 - hidden markov models

Dear R community,

I am looking for an R package or other software to study hidden  
Markov models. I need to be able to incorporate multivariate  
emissions and covariates for the transition probabilities. The msm  
package seems almost perfect for my purpose, but I do not think it  
allows multivariate emissions.

I will be grateful for your suggestions.

All the best,

-- 
Emilio A. Laca
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Emilio,
The depmix package on cran has multivariate distributions and the
possibility of (linear) covariates on the parameters.
If you have questions about its use feel free to contact me,
best, ingmar visser


On 9/26/05 6:29 PM, "Dr. Emilio A. Laca" <ealaca at ucdavis.edu>
wrote:
> Dear R community,
> 
> I am looking for an R package or other software to study hidden
> Markov models. I need to be able to incorporate multivariate
> emissions and covariates for the transition probabilities. The msm
> package seems almost perfect for my purpose, but I do not think it
> allows multivariate emissions.
> 
> I will be grateful for your suggestions.
> 
> All the best,
-- 
Ingmar Visser
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/ivisser/
tel: +31-20-5256735