This blog post is a follow up on my previous post on optimising a Weibull regression model using optimx(). This time I’ll try to find a solution for the discrepancy between the confidence interval estimates of the Weibull hazard function estimated wit...

In this blog post we will optimise a Weibull regression model by maximising its likelihood function using optimx() from the {optimx} package in R. In my previous blog post I showed how to optimise a Poisson regression model in the same manner. Optimis...

In this blog post, we will fit a Poisson regression model by maximising its likelihood function using optimx() in R. As an example we will use the lung cancer data set included in the {survival} package. The data set includes information on 228 lung cancer patients from the North Central Cancer ...