The most accurate estimation of transition probabilities for a multi-state model of health status requires longitudinal data. However, for many countries such data are usually not available. Instead, ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 45, No. 2 (1996), pp. 135-150 (16 pages) Motivated by the line transect aerial surveys of Southern Bluefin Tuna in the sea ...