Re: [R] censorReg/survreg

2011-06-03 Thread Terry Therneau
-- begin inclusion -- In addition, is there anyone knowing why censorReg does not exist in R and what's the difference between censorReg and survreg (besides the truncation)? ---end inclusion --- CensorReg and survreg were both developed in Splus, they fit the same models, both use maximum likeli

[R] censorReg/survreg

2011-06-02 Thread Skevi Pericleous
Hi all, I would like to ask whether anyone knows if the censorReg in S-plus regress the mean survival model or the hazard and if it uses the maximum likelihood in order to estimate the values? In addition, is there anyone knowing why censorReg does not exist in R and what's the difference betwee