Re: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

2008-06-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
Try survreg(), in the survival package. -thomas On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Bluder Olivia wrote: Hello, I'm trying to calculate the Maximum likelihood estimators for a dataset which contains censored data. I started by using the function "nlm", but isn't there a separate method for doing

Re: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

2008-06-13 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le ven. 13 juin à 13:55, Ben Bolker a écrit : Bluder Olivia k-ai.at> writes: Hello, I'm trying to calculate the Maximum likelihood estimators for a dataset which contains censored data. I started by using the function "nlm", but isn't there a separate method for doing this for e.g. t

Re: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

2008-06-13 Thread Ben Bolker
Bluder Olivia k-ai.at> writes: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to calculate the Maximum likelihood estimators for a dataset > which contains censored data. > > 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" distri

[R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R with censored Data

2008-06-13 Thread Bluder Olivia
Hello, I'm trying to calculate the Maximum likelihood estimators for a dataset which contains censored data. 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? Thanks, Olivia [[a