--- On Sun, 12/7/09, Maarten buis wrote:
> These two models model something different: the Weibull
> models the log hazard of experiencing the event, while
> the log-logistic model the log time till the event. If
> the hazard is high then the time till the event should
> be small and vice versa, so you would expect the
> coefficients of the two models to have opposite signs.
You can get both models in the accelerated failure time
metric by specifying the -time- option in -streg- when
estimating the Weibull model.
A short discussion of these two metrics can be found
in section 4 of my introduction to survival analysis:
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/survival.html
More can be found in:
Mario Cleves, William W. Gould, Roberto G. Gutierrez,
and Yulia Marchenk (2008) An Introduction to Survival
Analysis Using Stata, 2nd Edition. College Station, TX:
Stata Press.
http://www.stata-press.com/books/saus.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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