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Can survreg() handle interval-censored data like the documentation says? I ask because the command: survreg(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ 1, data = heart) fails with the error message Invalid survival type yet the documentation for Surv() states: "Presently, the only methods allowing interval censored data are the parametric models computed by 'survreg'"

I am a student (and very to new to R) working on a senior design project that is attempting to determine the demand distributions for single copy newspaper draws at individual sales outlet locations. Our sales data is right-censored, because sell-outs constitute a majority of the data, and we are also testing the relevance of including covariates (weather, seasonality, economic condition, etc.).

Can anybody give me a neat example of interval censored data analysis codes in R? Given that suvreg(Surv(c(1,1,NA,3),c(2,NA,2,3),type="interval2")~1) works why does survreg(Surv(data[,1],data[,2],type="interval2")~1) not work where data is : T.1 T.2 Status 1 0.0000000 0.62873036 1 2 0.0000000 2.07039068 1 3 0.0000000

Hello, I have interval censored data, censored between (0, 100). I used the tobit function in the AER package which in turn backs on survreg. Actually I'm struggling with the distribution. Data is asymmetrically distributed, so first choice would be a Weibull distribution. Unfortunately the Weibull doesn't allow for zero values in time data, as it requires x > 0. So I tried the

Dear All, I would like to fit some parametric survival models using left truncated, right censored data in R. However I am having problems finding a function to fit parametric survival models which can handle left truncated data. I have tested both the survreg function in package survival: fit1 <- survreg(Surv(start, stop, status) ~ X + Y + Z, data=data1) and the psm function in package

Hello! I have a matrix with data and a column indicating whether it is censored or not. Is there a way to apply weibull and exponential maximum likelihood estimation directly on the censored data, like in the paper: Backtesting Value-at-Risk: A Duration-Based Approach, P Chrisoffersen and D Pelletier (October 2003) page 8? The problem is that if I type out the code as below the likelihood

Hi just wondering if there is a package that can get the maximum likelihood or method of moments estimator for distributions with censored data? The distributions I'm interested in are: Exponential, pareto, beta, gamma and lognormal. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MLE-for-censored-distributions-in-R-tp15022863p15022863.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Hi, I have a right-censored (positive) random variable (e.g. failure times subject to right censoring) that is observed for N subjects: Y_i, I = 1, 2, ..., N. Note that Y_i = min(T_i, C_i), where T_i is the true failure time and C_i is the censored time. Let us assume that C_i is independent of T_i. Now, I would like to generate another random variable U_i, I = 1, 2, ..., N, which is

Hi, I am wondering how to specify interval-censored data in coxph? The example in the help page summary(coxph(Surv(start, stop, event) ~ x, data = test2)) is for counting process data, is the counting process data the same as interval-censored data? Thanks __________________________________

Hello, I'm working with some left censored survival data using accelerated failure time models. I am interested in fitting different distributions to the data but seem to be getting the same results from the model fit using survreg regardless of the assumed distribution. These two codes seem to provide the same results: aft.gaussian <-

I am trying to fit a lognormal distribution on interval-censored data. Some of my intervals have a lower bound of zero. Unfortunately, it seems like survreg() cannot deal with lower bounds of zero, despite the fact that plnorm(0)==0 and pnorm(-Inf)==0 are well defined. Below is a short example to reproduce the problem. Does anyone know why survreg() must behave that way? Is there an alternate

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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-helpers, excuse me if this is not exclusively an R-related question. I have data from a nested design, both temporally and spatially, and the reponse variable of interest is left-censored. That is, only values > "some treshold" are available, otherwise "LOW" is reported. Are there ways of building a linear model with both fixed and random effects, when the

Dear everyone: I am a new user of R. I have a dataset with a dependent variable (DV) censored at different values. The dataset looks like, conditions .....IDV1 IDV2 DV 1 2 4 89 1 6 6 75 1 4 5 0 ( DV<=70) ...... 2 3 5 15 2 5 5 0

Hi , I am trying to get some estimator based on lognormal distribution when we have left,interval, and right censored data. Since, there is now avalible pakage in R can help me in this, I had to write my own code using Newton Raphson method which requires first and second derivative of log likelihood but my problem after runing the code is the estimators were too high. with this email ,I provide

dear all, I would like to know whether survdiff and survReg function in the survival package work for left-truncated and right-censored data. If not, what other functions can i use to make comparison between two survival curves with LTRC data. thanks for any help given sing yee

I read through Harrington and Fleming (1982) but it is beyond my statistical comprehension. I have survival data for insects that have a very finite expiration date. I'm trying to test for differences in survival distributions between different groups. I understand that the medical field is most often dealing with censored data and that survival analysis, at least in the package survival,

Full_Name: Tim Cohn Version: 1.6.1 OS: Macintosh OS X Submission from: (NULL) (130.11.34.250) The Mac version of survreg does not handle left-censored data correctly (at least the results are not what I get doing it other ways, and they are not the same as I get running R 1.6.1 in Windows 98se; the Windows 98 results are correct). On the windows version of R 1.6.1. >

Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there are any packages allowing one to fit mixed models (or non-linear mixed models) to data that includes censoring. I've done some searching already on CRAN and through the mailing list archives, but haven't discovered anything. Since I may well have done a poor job searching I thought I'd ask here prior to giving up. I understand that

Hello, I have been googling for 2 days and I cannot find the answer in previous posts. I have a set of d-dimensional data elements (d=11 .. 14), each data point can be censored at different values both Lower-limit and upper limit. N = 2000 sets of vectors of D=11 data points per vector. Each of the N*D points can have different upper and lower limits. I "simply" want to fit a