"I enjoyed reading this book very much: the writing style is clear and concise, and the mathematical presentation is easy to follow. Notations are well thought out and the technical derivations are thorough. The book is a valuable resource on latent Markov models to students, researchers, and practitioners."—Alexander R. De Leon, Technometrics, February 2015"… a useful contribution to the literature. … The exposition is easy to follow for anyone who has encountered random effects models for longitudinal data. … The overall structure is well thought out. … The authors clearly have considerable practical experience in the application of this technique, and they have made important contributions to its literature."—Geoff Jones, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 56, 2014"The book gives an excellent introduction as well as coverage of theoretical basics of latent Markov model analysis and their practical applications. … I enjoyed reading the book, its clarity of exposition, its fairly compact format, and carefully worked out examples that did a good job in illustrating the background theory."—Seppo Pynnönen, International Statistical Review, 2014