[R-sig-Epi] About parametric survival analysis

Martina Gandini gandini at calvino.polito.it
Wed Sep 26 15:20:06 CEST 2007


Good afternoon R-users!
I have a question about survival analysis.
I have a set of data for which I calculate non parametric survival
function using the classical Kaplan-Meier estimation.

Data are in the following form

date of birth, date of exit, censor


Now I want to compare the "Kaplan-Meier" curve with a parametric survival
curve (a Weibull seems to be a reasonable choice in my example). Is there
a function in R to do this?
Thanks a lot!

Martina Gandini



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