[R] R for reliability analysis (with censored samples)?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

> So here are the questions:
>
> How suitable is R for this kind of work (reliability analysis)?
>
> Does it handle (right-/left-/interval-)censored samples by default?
>

The survreg() function in the "survival" package fits accelerated failure 
models to right/left/interval censored data.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle