plot.msm {msm}R Documentation

Plots of multi-state models

Description

This produces a plot of the expected probability of survival against time, from each transient state. Survival is defined as not entering an absorbing state.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'msm'
plot(x, from, to, range, covariates, legend.pos, xlab="Time",
                   ylab="Fitted survival probability", lwd=1, ...)

Arguments

x Output from msm, representing a fitted multi-state model object.
from States from which to consider survival. Defaults to the complete set of transient states.
to Absorbing state to consider. Defaults to the highest-labelled absorbing state.
range Vector of two elements, giving the range of times to plot for.
covariates Covariate values for which to evaluate the expected probabilities. This can either be:

the string "mean", denoting the means of the covariates in the data (this is the default),

the number 0, indicating that all the covariates should be set to zero,

or a list of values, with optional names. For example

list (60, 1)

where the order of the list follows the order of the covariates originally given in the model formula, or a named list,

list (age = 60, sex = 1)

legend.pos Vector of the x and y position, respectively, of the legend.
xlab x axis label.
ylab y axis label.
lwd Line width. See par.
... Other arguments to be passed to the generic plot and lines functions.

Author(s)

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

See Also

msm


[Package msm version 0.9.5 Index]