Table 2.

Percent bias of one-year transition probability for each path by the continuous-time multi-state model under three observation schemes.

	Evenly spaced data		Unevenly spaced data 1		Unevenly spaced data 2
Transition	Z=0	Z=1	Z=0	Z=1	Z=0	Z=1
1 to 1	−0.06%	−0.31%	−0.03%	−0.13%	−0.03%	−0.13%
1 to 2	0.42%	0.51%	0.23%	0.12%	0.23%	0.12%
1 to 3	−0.44%	1.50%	0.28%	1.59%	0.28%	1.59%
1 to 4	−0.23%	−0.31%	−0.56%	−0.57%	−0.56%	−0.57%
2 to 1	0.41%	0.23%	0.23%	−0.35%	0.23%	−0.35%
2 to 2	−0.08%	0.03%	−0.07%	−0.01%	−0.07%	−0.01%
2 to 3	0.22%	−0.08%	0.20%	0.36%	0.20%	0.36%
2 to 4	−0.72%	−0.72%	−0.23%	−0.24%	−0.23%	−0.24%