create_trans_dt function

Create a data table of health state transitions

Create a data table of health state transitions from a transition matrix describing the states and transitions in a multi-state model suitable for use with hesim_data.

create_trans_dt(trans_mat)

Arguments

• trans_mat: A transition matrix in the format from the mstate package. See IndivCtstmTrans.

Returns

Returns a data.table::data.table in tidy format with three columns:

• transition_id: Health state transition ID.
• from: The starting health state.
• to: The health state that will be transitions to.

Examples

tmat <- rbind(c(NA, 1, 2),
              c(NA, NA, 3),
              c(NA, NA, NA))
create_trans_dt(tmat)