On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Matthias Ziehm wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find it in the > archives or general internet.
A Markmail/Rhelp search on: gompertz survreg ...brings this link to a reply by Terry Therneau. Seems to address everything you asked and a bit more http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help+gompertz+survreg#query:list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help%20gompertz%20survreg+page:1+mid:6xdlsmo272oa7zkw+state:results (Depending on how your mailer breaks URLs you may need to paste it back together.) > > Is it possible to implement the gompertz distribution as survreg.distribution > to use with survreg of the survival library? > I haven't found anything and recent attempts from my side weren't succefull > so far. > > I know that other packages like 'eha' and 'flexsurv' offer functions similar > to survreg with gompertz support. However, due to the run-time environment > were this needs to be running in the end, I can't use these packages :( > > Same questions for the gompertz-makeham distribution. > > Many thanks! > > Matthias -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
