weimle1 function

Fit Weibull distribution parameters using MLE

Fit the shape and scale parameters for a Weibull distribution to the time-to-event data using MLE.

weimle1(time, status)

Arguments

• time: A vector of event times
• status: A vector of 0-1 censoring status, 0 for censored, 1 for observed

Returns

A list including out (the return from mle()), shape, and scale

Examples

time <- rexp(100)
status <- rbinom(n=100, size=1, prob=0.5)
weimle1(time=time, status=status)