[R] estimating rho of Poisson distributed data

Titus von der Malsburg malsburg at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 16:41:36 CET 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:33:52AM -0700, Peter Ehlers wrote:
> Why would anyone complain? You're free to call it 'applesauce'
> if that suits you.

Good idea, I will do this from now on!  ;-)

> What do you mean by 'general way to fit a distribution'?
> Maximum likelihood might be one way.

Somebody else pointed me to fitdistr from MASS which does the job.

Thanks for the reply!

  Titus



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