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Dear R-users I would like to fit weibull parameters using "Method of moments" in order to provide the inital values of the parameter to de function 'fitdistr' . I don`t have much experience with maths and I don't know how to do it. Can anyone please put me in the rigth direction? Borja [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-users! I would like to fit exponential, Weibull and log-logistic via glm() like functions. Does anyone know a way to do this? Bellow is a bit longer description of my problem. Hm, could family() be adjusted/improved/added to allow for these distributions? SAS procedure GENMOD alows to specify deviance and variance functions to help in such cases. I have not tried that option and I do not

Dear R-users I have some datasets, all left-censoring, and I would like to fit distributions to (weibull,exponential, etc..). I read one solution using the function survreg in the survival package. i.e survreg(Surv(...)~1, dist="weibull") but it returns only the scale parameter. Does anyone know how to successfully fit the exponential, weibull etc... distributions to left-censoring

Hi R-Community, I have a vector of Weibull distributed observations and I would like to estimate the parameters "shape" and "scale" of the Weibull distribution. Is there a way to do this in R? Much thanks in advance, Hagen Schm?ller -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Hagen K. Schm?ller Institut f?r Elektrische Anlagen und

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'm trying to estimate the parameters of a lognormal distribution fitted from some data. The tricky thing is that my data represent the time at which I recorded certain events. However, in many cases I don't really know when the event happened. I' only know the time at which I recorded it as already happened. Therefore I want to fit the lognormal from the cumulative

Hello, maybe that my Question is a "beginner"-Question, but up to now, my research didn't bring any useful result. I'm trying to fit a distribution (e.g. lognormal) to a given set of data (ML-Estimation). I KNOW about my data that there is a truncation for all data below a well known threshold. Is there an R-solution for an ML-estimation for this kind of data-problem? As

Hi R lovers! I'd like to know how to use the parameter 'start' in the function fitdistr() obviously I have to provide the initial value of the parameter to optimize except in the case of a certain set of given distribution Indeed according to the help file for fitdistr " For the following named distributions, reasonable starting values will be computed if `start'

Hello, I'm quite new to R and want to make a Weibull-regression with the survival package. I know how to build my "Surv"-object and how to make a standard-weibull regression with "survreg". However, I want to fit a translated or 3-parametric weibull dist to account for a failure-free time. I think I would need a new object in survreg.distributions, but I don't know how

Greetings -- I would like to estimate a proportional hazard model with a weibull or lognormal baseline. I have looked at both the coxph() and survreg() functions and neither appear (to me ) to do it. Am I missing something in the docs or is there another terrific package out there that will do this. Many Thanks. Carl Mason

I was wondering if someone familiar with survival analysis can help me with the following. I would like to fit a Weibull curve, that may be dependent on a covariate, my dataframe "labdata" that has the fields "cov", "time", and "censor". Do I do the following? wieb<-survreg(Surv(labdata$time, labadata$censor)~labdata$cov,

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

Hi all, I'm trying to generate a Weibull distribution including four covariates in the model. Here is the code I used: T = rweibull(200, shape=1.3, scale=0.004*exp(-(-2.5*b1+2.5*b2+0.9*x1-1.3*x2)/1.3)) C = rweibull(n, shape=1.5, scale=0.008) #censoring time time = pmin(T,C) #observed time is min of censored and true event = time==T # set to 1 if event is observed

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

Dear R users, This is a basic question. I want to fit a Weibull distribution. fitdistr(data, "weibull") works and it is a maximum likelihood fitting. Is it a good method ? Or is it better to write a function for the log-likelihood and the gradient and to use a numerical routine ? Fitdistr works for uncensored data, but what can I use for censored (and uncensored) data ? Thank you

GUYS, I NEED HELP WITH ERROR: library(MASS) > dados<-read.table("mediaRGinverno.txt",header=FALSE) > vento50<-fitdistr(dados[[1]],densfun="weibull") Erro em fitdistr(dados[[1]], densfun = "weibull") : Weibull values must be > 0 WHY RETURN THIS ERROR? WHAT CAN I DO? BEST REGARDS [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm getting errors when running what seems to be a simple Weibull distribution function: This works: x <- c(23,19,37,38,40,36,172,48,113,90,54,104,90,54,157,51,77,78,144,34,29,45,16,15,37,218,170,44,121) rate <- c(.01,.02,.04,.05,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.8,.9) year <- c(100,50,25,20,10,5,3.3,2.5,2,1.2,1.1) library(MASS) x <- sort(x) tryCatch( f<-fitdistr(x, 'weibull'), error

Dear R-Helpers, I am hoping to perform survival analyses using the "ex-Gaussian" distribution. I understand that the ex-Gaussian is a convolution of exponential and Gaussian distributions for survival data. I checked the "survreg.distributions" help and saw that it is possible to mix pre-defined distributions. Am I correct to think that the following code makes the

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Dear All; I tried to use fitdistr() in the MASS library to fit a mixture distribution of the 3-parameter Weibull, but the optimization failed. Looking at the source code, it seems to indicate the error occurs at if (res$convergence > 0) stop("optimization failed"). The procedures I tested are as following: >w3den <- function(x, a,b,c)