Course overview

This course gives an introduction to the use of the msm R package for fitting and predicting from multi-state models for intermittently observed data, in typical medical applications.

There is a balance of short talks and practical exercises. In the exercises, you will write your own R code, based on the code demonstrated in the talks, to perform multi-state data analyses and answer applied questions.

All the course material will stay on this website, http://chjackson.github.io/msm/msmcourse,

so you can follow along at your own pace, and finish exercises in your own time.

Rough timings:

Prerequisites

Computer with R and the msm package installed.

Basic knowledge of R.

Basic statistics / probability, ideally from a medical / biostatistics perspective.

Some knowledge of survival analysis would help.

Licence

The material in this course is freely available and redistributable under the terms of the CC-BY licence.