[R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Tue Apr 4 08:23:08 CEST 2006


Andrej Kastrin wrote:

> Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
>>vkatoma at cs.uct.ac.za wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I would like to know how to configure R so that I can enter some values
>>>and compute the Muximum likelihood estimation of my data.
>>>    
>>
>>Maximum likelihood estimation of what?
>>I do not know the definition of "Maximum likelihood estimation of [...] 
>>data".
>>
>>Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Victor.
>>>
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> 
> Google for " Fitting Distributions with R". Excellent intro to your 
> question...


Yes, thanks. I know maximum likelihood estimation, but I do not know 
what the original questioner means with "compute the Muximum likelihood 
estimation of my data." I tried to point out that we need some more 
details - maybe using a too subtle way in this case ...


Uwe Ligges



> HTH, Andrej
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