Estimates the model parameters by maximizing the log-likelihood.
optimlikelihood(Y, Delta, Copula, Dist.T, Dist.C, start)
A list containing the minimized negative log-likelihood using the independence copula model, the estimated parameter values for the model with the independence copula, the minimized negative log-likelihood using the specified copula model and the estimated parameter values for the model with the specified copula.
Follow-up time.
Censoring indicator.
The copula family. This argument can take values from c("frank","gumbel","clayton","gaussian","indep")
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The distribution to be used for the survival time T. This argument can take one of the values from c("lnorm", "weibull", "llogis")
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The distribution to be used for the censoring time C. This argument can take one of the values from c("lnorm", "weibull", "llogis")
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Starting values