Re: [R] interpretation of coefficients in survreg AND obtaining the hazard function

2010-11-15 Thread Terry Therneau
1. The weibull is the only distribution that can be written in both a proportional hazazrds for and an accelerated failure time form. Survreg uses the latter. In an ACF model, we model the time to failure. Positive coefficients are good (longer time to death). In a PH model, we model the de

Re: [R] interpretation of coefficients in survreg AND obtaining the hazard function for an individual given a set of predictors

2010-11-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Biau David wrote: > Dear R help list, > > I am modeling some survival data with coxph and survreg (dist='weibull') using > package survival. I have 2 problems: > > 1) I do not understand how to interpret the regression coefficients in the > survreg output and it is

Re: [R] interpretation of coefficients in survreg AND obtaining the hazard function for an individual given a set of predictors

2010-11-13 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 13, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Biau David wrote: Dear R help list, I am modeling some survival data with coxph and survreg (dist='weibull') using package survival. I have 2 problems: 1) I do not understand how to interpret the regression coefficients in the survreg output and it is not cl

[R] interpretation of coefficients in survreg AND obtaining the hazard function for an individual given a set of predictors

2010-11-13 Thread Biau David
Dear R help list, I am modeling some survival data with coxph and survreg (dist='weibull') using package survival. I have 2 problems: 1) I do not understand how to interpret the regression coefficients in the survreg output and it is not clear, for me, from ?survreg.objects how to. Here is an