Handling Covariates in Markovian Models with a Mixture Transition Distribution Based Approach

This paper presents and discusses the use of a Mixture Transition Distribution-like model (MTD) to account for covariates in Markovian models. The MTD was introduced in 1985 by Raftery as an approximation of higher order Markov chains. In the MTD, each lag is estimated separately using an additive m...

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Main Author: Danilo Bolano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/4/558