[R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

[Thomas Lumley]

Try survreg(), in the survival package.

      -thomas

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Bluder Olivia wrote:

> Hello,
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> I'm trying to calculate the Maximum likelihood estimators for a dataset
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> I started by using the function "nlm", but isn't there a separate method
> for doing this for e.g. the "weibull" and the "log-normal" distribution?
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> Thanks,
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> Olivia
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle