A function to get initial estimates of model parameters using maximum likelihood. Not intended for general purose use.
maxlikparamPHsurv(surv, X, control)
initial estimates of the parameters
an object of class Surv
the design matrix, containing covariate information
a list containg various control parameters for the MCMC and post-processing routines
Benjamin M. Taylor and Barry S. Rowlingson (2017). spatsurv: An R Package for Bayesian Inference with Spatial Survival Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 77(4), 1-32, doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i04.