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Subject: Question about survReg
From: Tristan Lorino <tristan.lorino@lcpc.fr>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:12:23 +0100
Organization: LCPC
Reply-to: Tristan Lorino <tristan.lorino@lcpc.fr>
Hi,

I'm  trying  to find the two parameters of the Weibull distribution in
the  case  of  parametric  survival model. S-Plus "survReg" function returns an 
intercept
(say a) and a scale parameter (say b).
Am I wrong if I say that:
1. the shape parameter of the initial Weibull distribution is 1/b,
2. the  scale  parameter  of  the  initial  Weibull  distribution  is
exp(-a/b)?

Thank you for your help,
Tristan
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