pwexploglik {lrstat}

Profile log-likelihood function for the change points in piecewise exponential approximation

Description

Obtains the profile log-likelihood function for the change points in the piecewise exponential approximation to a survival function.

Usage

pwexploglik(tau, S, ...)

Arguments

tau

The numeric vector of change points.

S

The survival function of a univariate survival time.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to S.

Value

A list with the following three components:

• piecewiseSurvivalTime: A vector that specifies the starting time of piecewise exponential survival time intervals.

• lambda: A vector of hazard rates for the event. One for each analysis time interval.

• loglik: The value of the profile log-likelihood.

Author(s)

Kaifeng Lu, [e-mail]

Examples

pwexploglik(tau = c(0.5, 1.2, 2.8), pweibull, 
            shape = 1.37, scale = 1/0.818, lower.tail = FALSE)