Software

dtms: discrete-time multistate models in R

The Comprehensive R Archive Network, CRAN (February 2026)
Open Source

Abstract

The package provides tools for processing data, several ways of estimating parametric and nonparametric multistate models, and an extensive set of Markov chain methods which use transition probabilities derived from the multistate model.

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