<p>This question </p>

<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/321878/fitting-a-distribution-to-survival-curve-in-r">fitting a distribution to survival curve in R</a></p>

<p>has been posted as an exact duplicate on Stack Overflow </p>

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48137772/fitting-a-distribution-to-survival-curve">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48137772/fitting-a-distribution-to-survival-curve</a></p>

<p>In case one sees a case of cross-posting, what’s the recommendation? Post a comment saying that cross-posting is against the rules? Or is there a “cross-posting” option in the “vote to close” menu?</p>

<p>I won’t vote to close this one though - I have to admit that cross-posting in this case was useful (I'm putting myself in a dangerous position here ;-P) Ben Bolker’s answer, using NLS, arrives at different results than me using log-transformations plus LS. This is to be expected, since the log weights the residuals for small values of <code>month</code> more than the residual for larger <code>month</code> values. However, I wouldn’t have expected the difference in the estimated curve to be so large.</p>
