Journal article
Lifetime smoking patterns: A transition probability analysis
Abstract
An analytical framework for studying the population dynamics and lifetime patterns of cigarette smoking is developed. The key idea is that changes in the distribution of the population among smoking and nonsmoking categories can be viewed as an age-sex-dependent Markov process and that transition probability matrices for successive ages can be linked to generate the complete smoking history of a cohort as it moves along its age path. The …
Authors
Denton FT; Spencer BG; Welland DA
Journal
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 181–198
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 1993
DOI
10.1016/0038-0121(93)90003-2
ISSN
0038-0121