survreg (survival) reports erroneous results for left-censored data (PR#2287)

[Jan de Leeuw]

I take that back. I now get the "correct" result on Darwin R-1.6.1, the  
"wrong" result
with Carbon R-1.6.0. On a dual G4 with 10.2.2.

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 08:04 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>
>>
>> No problemo. And, in fact, I get the same results in
>> the R-1.6.0 Carbon version.
>
> I don't. Could there be a G3/G4 issue?
>
> 	-thomas
>
>
>> --- Jan
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 02:05 PM, tim@timcohn.com wrote:
>>
>>> Full_Name: Tim Cohn
>>> Version: 1.6.1
>>> OS: Macintosh OS X
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (130.11.34.250)
>>>
>>>
>>> The Mac version of survreg does not handle left-censored data
>>> correctly (at
>>> least the results are not what I get doing it other ways, and they  
>>> are
>>> not the
>>> same as I get running R 1.6.1 in Windows 98se;  the Windows 98  
>>> results
>>> are
>>> correct).  On the windows version of R 1.6.1.
>>>
>>>> survreg(Surv(c(0,1,-1),c(T,T,F),type='left')~1,dist='gaussian')
>>> Call:
>>> survreg(formula = Surv(c(0, 1, -1), c(T, T, F), type = "left") ~
>>>     1, dist = "gaussian")
>>>
>>> Coefficients:
>>> (Intercept)
>>>  -0.2321569
>>>
>>> Scale= 1.161135
>>>
>>> Loglik(model)= -4.1   Loglik(intercept only)= -4.1
>>> n= 3
>>>
>>>
>>> =================
>>>
>>> The Macintosh OS X result for the same command is:
>>>
>>>> survreg(Surv(c(0,1,-1),c(T,T,F),type='left')~1,dist='gaussian')
>>> Call:
>>> survreg(formula = Surv(c(0, 1, -1), c(T, T, F), type = "left") ~
>>>     1, dist = "gaussian")
>>>
>>> Coefficients:
>>> (Intercept)
>>>  -0.7373613
>>>
>>> Scale= 1.366282
>>>
>>> Loglik(model)= -5.6   Loglik(intercept only)= -5.6
>>> n= 3
>>>
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