value or expression that represents cost of the health state
utility
value or expression that represents utility
of the health state
state_time
time denoting how long in the state
absorb
boolean indicating health state absorbing or not
Details
Initialising the name, cost, utility and time spent for the health state
name is the name of the health state
cost/utility can be defined as characters e.g. "cost_A"
if they are characters, the value is assigned after parsing the text.
state_time is integer and absorb is boolean