[R-sig-Epi] lognormal distribution in survreg
Mariana Wagner
marianaw at web.de
Sat Aug 4 09:51:33 CEST 2007
I fit a lognormal model to survival data using survreg. I am confused about the output, because I do not know how to interprete the
"scale." The output is:
Call:
survreg(formula = surv1 ~ p$score, dist = "lognormal")
Value Std. Error z p
(Intercept) 5.5891 0.1986 28.14 2.76e-174
p$score -0.0162 0.0102 -1.58 1.14e-01
Log(scale) 0.4046 0.0594 6.81 9.65e-12
Scale= 1.5
Log Normal distribution
Loglik(model)= -996.1 Loglik(intercept only)= -997.4
Chisq= 2.5 on 1 degrees of freedom, p= 0.11
Number of Newton-Raphson Iterations: 4
n= 505
Is scale the scale parameter of the lognormal distribution ? If yes is there no estimate of the standard derivation?
Thanks,
Mariana
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