R: Transient and absorbing states

transient.msm {msm} | R Documentation

## Transient and absorbing states

### Description

Returns the transient and absorbing states of either a fitted model or a transition intensity matrix.

### Usage

    transient.msm(x=NULL, qmatrix=NULL)
    absorbing.msm(x=NULL, qmatrix=NULL)

### Arguments

`x` | A fitted multi-state model as returned by `msm`.
`qmatrix` | A transition intensity matrix. The diagonal is ignored and taken to be minus the sum of the rest of the row.

### Value

A vector of the ordinal indices of the transient or absorbing states.

### Author(s)

C. H. Jackson chris.jackson@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

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