[R] interval regression

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I believe from your description that this is interval-censored survival
and can be handled by survreg.

It would also be very easy to amend polr to do this.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Thomas Ribarits wrote:

> does anyone have a quick answer to the question of how to carry out
> interval regression in R. I have found "ordered logit" and "ordered
> probit" as well as multinomial logit etc. The thing is, though, that I
> want to apply logit/probit to interval-coded data and I know the cell
> limits which are used to turn the quantitative response into an ordered
> factor. Hence, it does not make sense to estimate the cell limits (e.g.
> in zeta for the function polr).

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