[R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Sun Jun 15 17:46:23 CEST 2008


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
> which contains censored data.
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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
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