multistate {gamboostMSM}

Family for Multistate Models

Description

This function implements a family for fitting multistate models using mboost.

Usage

multistate(Ri, Ci)

Arguments

Ri

a list giving the individual (i.e., spell specific) risksets.

Ci

a list giving the indexes of risksets an individual spell is a part of (see page 213 in the book Generalized Additive Models by T.J. Hastie and R.J. Tibshirani for a description).

Details

This function implements a family for multistate models and will be used inside the gamboost or glmboost function.

Value

Functions to be used inside gamboost.

Author(s)

Holger Reulen