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Brian D M Tom1, Vernon T Farewell
1MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. brian.tom@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
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Motivated by investigations of factors related to various patient-reported outcome measures in psoriatic arthritis patients, after controlling for the effect of disease activity on these outcomes, we outline an approach for dealing with a rapidly fluctuating explanatory variable in a multistate model. On the basis of a representation of this variable as an ordinal classification, we suggest the use of an expanded multistate model. We examine the bias in estimating effects associated with other variables via simulation for different modelling choices. We present an analysis of a motivating data set on physical functional disability in psoriatic arthritis patients.
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