Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 51, No. 1 (2002), pp. 31-40 (10 pages) The paper demonstrates the use of functions provided by EXCEL for simulation of two ...

To analyse functional status transitions in the older population better, we fit a semi-Markov process model to data from the 1992-2002 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. We used an analogue of the ...