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Re: st: RE: Fitting distributions to right-sensored survival data
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: Fitting distributions to right-sensored survival data
Date
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:12:25 +0000
There are several programs, mostly user-written and mostly based
directly or indirectly on some originals written by Stephen Jenkins.
The names are mostly
<foo>fit
for the <foo> distribution. As with any other Stata problem, you can
-search- using a key word and download, usually from SSC.
Some general caveats:
1. Several program names are based on those names prominent in the
field of income distribution, because that's what Stephen was working
on, but quite often different names are used (and also distributions
are related by being special or general or limiting cases of others).
2. Also, program writers feel free to choose a parameterisation that
they find convenient, congenial, or amusing and it may not be what you
seek.
Nick
[email protected]
On 22 November 2013 12:44, Kabaso M.E. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a large dataset and would like to fit distributions (and more importantly extract the parameters for each distribution for use in simulation software).
>
> Essentially, I can use the streg for example to fit a Weibull model to my survival data but how can I get the model's parameters for me to recreate the pdf here fitted elsewhere?
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