[R] Uncensoring a dataset - resent

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Fri Oct 28 16:55:30 CEST 2005


On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Richard Reiss wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an R package that I can use to uncensor a normal or
> log-normal dataset?  I'm particularly interested in the MLE method of
> Cohen (1959), "Simplified estimators for the normal distribution when
> samples are single censored or truncated," Technometrics, 1(3), 217-237.
> Of course, if there is anything better, I'd be glad to hear about that
> too.
>

survreg() in the survival package will fit censored normal and censored 
lognormal models.  If you fit a model with only an intercept this will 
estimate the mean and variance.

 	-thomas




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