Gad Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using survreg() from the survival package for parametric survival > regression (modelling inter-arrival times of patients to a waiting list > as exponentially distributed, with various regressors such as queue size > and season). > > Does anyone know which algorithm survreg() uses for this? > > Thanks, > Gad >
Due diligence: I have actually looked at ?survreg and friends, and at the source code; except for a brief mention of a "sparse Newton-Rapshon algorithm" in the frailty model code, I couldn't find anything substantive. -- Gad Abraham Department of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Melbourne Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
