Thank you

I don't know anything about survival regressions. Where should I start ?
(anything to read ?)

Maybe it is better or easier for me to write my own functions.

2008/4/15, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>
> For (possibly) censored data, survreg() in package survival can be used
> (just regress on a constant).  The parametrization is slightly different
> from [dpqr]weibull, but it is easy to do the translation.
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
> > Matthew B. <mtthw.bt <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> Dear R users,
> >>
> >> This is a basic question.
> >>
> >> I want to fit a Weibull distribution. fitdistr(data, "weibull") works
> and it
> >> is a maximum likelihood fitting. Is it a good method ? Or is it better
> to
> >> write a function for the log-likelihood and the gradient and to use a
> >> numerical routine ?
> >>
> >> Fitdistr works for uncensored data, but what can I use for censored
> (and
> >> uncensored) data ?
> >>
> >
> >  fitdistr() is just fine for simple data.
> >  for censored data you will indeed have to make up
> > your own negative log-likelihood function, using
> > dweibull() for uncensored data and pweibull() for
> > censored data.  You don't need to write a function
> > for the gradient (R will compute derivatives by
> > finite differences automatically) unless you are
> > very concerned with speed and stability.
> >  You shouldn't need anything beyond pweibull,
> > dweibull, and optim (or mle in the stats4 package).
> >
> >  Ben Bolker
> >
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