[R] Fitting Distributions

Agustin Lobo alobo at ija.csic.es
Thu Jan 10 08:49:41 CET 2002


Very interesting reference,
but http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/JSM2001.pdf
(Using Open Source Software to Teach
Mathematical Statistics) is by Douglas M. Bates.

Agus


Dr. Agustin Lobo
Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
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tel 34 93409 5410
fax 34 93411 0012
alobo at ija.csic.es


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Denham Robert wrote:

> Tharacad,
>         this sort of question comes up fairly often.  A good way to
> search for similar questions is at Jonathon Baron's site
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html, and a really good way to begin
> estimating distribution parameters in R is to look at a presentation
> Peter Dalgaard once did and made available on a web site at
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/JSM2001.pdf 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Robert Denham
> 
> > I am new to R. So, please bear with me if this questions is already
> been
> > asked and answered.
> 
> > I am looking for a R function that fit a dataset to common
> distributions
> > such as Normla, Log-Normal, Poisson, Weibull, and Beta. Basically I am
> > looking for ways to estimate distribution parameters rather than
> having to
> > write a program for it.
> 
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> 
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