[R] Markov transition matrices , missing transitions for certain years

[Chris Stubben]

To keep the table dimensions the same, try changing the columns to factors...


boxes$y97<-factor(boxes$y97, 1:4)
boxes$y98<-factor(boxes$y98, 1:4)
boxes$y99<-factor(boxes$y99, 1:4)
...

> table(boxes$y98, boxes$y97)
   
    1 2 3 4
  1 1 0 1 0
  2 0 0 0 0
  3 0 0 0 0
  4 1 0 0 1
> table(boxes$y99, boxes$y98)
   
    1 2 3 4
  1 1 0 0 1
  2 0 0 0 0
  3 0 0 0 0
  4 1 0 0 1

Chris


Abby_UNR wrote:
> 
> My problem is that there are 16 possible transitions, but not all possible
> transitions occur at each time step. Therefore, don't think I could do
> something easy like create a table for each time step and add them
> together, for example:
> 
>> t1.boxes <- table(boxes$y98, boxes$y97)
>> t1.boxes
>    
>     1 3 4
>   1 1 1 0
>   4 1 0 1
>> t2.boxes <- table(boxes$y99, boxes$y98)
>> t2.boxes
>    
>     1 4
>   1 1 1
>   4 1 1
>> 
> 
> 


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