package msm has some examples with this type of type, ie modeling disease state transitions in continuous time, using multi-state markov models. hth, Ingmar
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Rasanga Ruwanthi <ruwanthi_...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Dear List, > > I have some longitudinal data, each patient was followed at times 0, 12, > 16, 24 weeks and measure severity of a illness (0-worse, 1-same, 2-better). > So, longitudinal response is categorical. I was wondering whether lmer in R > can fit a model for this type of data. If so, how we code? Or any > other function in R that can fit this type of longitudinal data? Any > suggestion would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > Ruwanthi > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.