“…As a result, assessments are sometimes missing, unequally spaced, and the exact time of transition between states is unknown (i.e., transition times are interval‐censored). For traditional longitudinal studies, this type of data structure is commonly analyzed using multistate, continuous‐time Markov models (MSMs) (Kalbfleisch and Lawless, ; Kay, ; Marshall and Jones, ; Saint‐Pierre et al., ; Jones et al., ; Pan et al., ; Ma et al., ). MSMs can offer insights into behavioral processes (Saint‐Pierre et al., ).…”