[R] scale Problem in Survreg function

2012-12-20 Thread Lumar
Dear R-Community,

I'm writting my diploma-thesis this days. Therefore I have to estimate a few
coefficients with a Survreg function (library=Survival). My Problem is that
the estimated coefficients doesn't make sense. 

*My Questions:*
- What role plays the scale-Value for the coefficient-estimation?
- How can I interpret a scale-value like 3 or 12? 
- Why estimates R for some scales an Intercept and for some not? 
- Is it usual that the estimations differs so much (factor 1) for
different scale-Values? 

Thank you in Advance! :-)
Best wishes,
Stefan




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[R] Survreg Problem

2012-11-29 Thread Lumar
Hello community,

I have a problem with my survreg function in R-Statistics.
My created code is the following:

library(survival)
surv=Surv(IPT_IN_DAYS,Status)

survival.data.weibull=survreg(surv~AGE_DAYS+KM_COUNT+LL_PER_DAY+IPT_HIS+IPT_SDEV,
data=spss, dist="weibull", scale=2.0)   
summary(survival.data.weibull)

When I run that code following message shows up:

In survreg.fit(X, Y, weights, offset, init = init, controlvals = control,  : 
  Ran out of iterations and did not converge

What can I do to solve this problem? 

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Stefan







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