[R] Survreg with gamma distribution

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Kuan-Ta Chen <kuan <at> ilife.cx> writes:


: I find survreg {survival} has provided many distributions such as weibull,
: lognormal, etc. But I wonder why it doesn't have the support for gamma
: distribution since it should be a good distr. in lifetime analysis. Can
: anybody figure out the reason?

I have not tried it myself but you might want to check out:

   http://www.math.mun.ca/~ypeng/research/gfcure/index.htm