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...process snapshot / fully-observed histories / partially-observed histories such as death times. Users upgrading from previous versions of msm should note that some of the syntax for specifying models has changed. In particular, initial values are now specified in the "qmatrix" and "covinits" arguments instead of the inits argument, so that "qmatrix" is no longer a matrix of 0/1 indicators. As always, refer to the user guide "msm-manual.pdf" in the "doc" subdirectory for a full description of the methodology, and worked examples in the use of the pac...

...process snapshot / fully-observed histories / partially-observed histories such as death times. Users upgrading from previous versions of msm should note that some of the syntax for specifying models has changed. In particular, initial values are now specified in the "qmatrix" and "covinits" arguments instead of the inits argument, so that "qmatrix" is no longer a matrix of 0/1 indicators. As always, refer to the user guide "msm-manual.pdf" in the "doc" subdirectory for a full description of the methodology, and worked examples in the use of the pac...