Re: st: RE: Fitting distributions to right-sensored survival data

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

However, the programs I have in mind typically don't pay attention to
censoring or truncation beyond taking the data as presented.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 22 November 2013 13:12, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 22 November 2013 12:44, Kabaso M.E. <Mushota.Kabaso@soton.ac.uk> 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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