Table 1.

Frequencies of pairs of consecutive states, corresponding to the number of times an individual had an observation in state i followed by an observation in state j, as observed in the MRC CFAS data.

	To (state j)					Total
Healthy	History of stroke	Death	Censored
From (state i)
Healthy	2964	113	1328	710	5115
History of stroke	0	303	223	55	581
Total	2964	416	1551	765	5696