A simple and standard approach for analysing multistate model data is to model all transition intensities and then compute a summary measure such as the transition probabilities based on this. This approach is relatively simple to implement but it is difficult to see what the covariate effects...

type="main" xml:id="sjos12010-abs-0001" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title>In this paper, we propose a general class of Gamma frailty transformation models for multivariate survival data. The transformation class includes the commonly used proportional hazards and proportional odds models. The proposed class also includes...

Typically, regression analysis for multistate models has been based on regression models for the transition intensities. These models lead to highly nonlinear and very complex models for the effects of covariates on state occupation probabilities. We present a technique that models the state...