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Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0411231526470.284326@homer12.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2004-11-23T23:27:49Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Weibull survival regression
In-Reply-To: <000801c4d1aa$c0f47bf0$836a9951@youru989fckmtn>

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Eric Lim wrote:
>
> Using Thomas Lumley's solution with the lung dataset, I obtained:
>
>> curve(pweibull(x, scale=1/coef(lung.wbs), shape=1/lung.wbs$scale,
>      lower.tail=FALSE),from=0, to=max(lung$time))
>

That's because you read the part of the message where I got the 
reparametrization wrong, rather than the part where I got right.

It should be
  curve(pweibull(x, scale=exp(coef(lung.wbs)), shape=1/lung.wbs$scale,
       lower.tail=FALSE),from=0, to=max(lung$time))


 	-thomas