Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data?

2007-04-23 Thread Bert Gunter
Douglas: AFAIK, this is subject area of active current research. Diggle, Heagerty, Liang, and Zeger , 2002, (ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA) say on p.316: An emerging consensus is that analysis of data with potentially informative dropouts necessarily involves assumptions which are difficult, or

Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data?

2007-04-23 Thread Douglas Grove
Hi Bert, Yes, I am always wary when one software offers something that other do not. The censoring I'm faced with (at present) isn't as complicated as with much 'survival' data. I'm trying to analyze assay data and have a lower limit of detection (LLD) to contend with. Once the level of the

Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data?

2007-04-23 Thread Pikounis, Bill [CNTUS]
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Douglas Grove Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:29 PM To: Bert Gunter Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data? Hi Bert, Yes, I am always wary when one software offers something that other do not. The censoring I'm faced

Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data?

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Douglas, I wonder if frailty models are what you're looking for? https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-November/061511.html Cheers, Andrew On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0700, Douglas Grove wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there are any packages allowing one to fit

Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data?

2007-04-23 Thread Douglas Grove
@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] fitting mixed models to censored data? Hi Bert, Yes, I am always wary when one software offers something that other do not. The censoring I'm faced with (at present) isn't as complicated as with much 'survival' data. I'm trying to analyze assay data and have