Message-ID: <loom.20050304T060955-648@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2005-03-04T05:13:32Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: fitting pareto to data?
r help <r_hlp <at> yahoo.com> writes:
:
: hi
:
: i have an experimental dataset which i think is coming
: from a pareto/powerlaw distribution.
:
: i am trying to use the 2 parameter pareto distribution
: from Jim Lindsey's rmutil package (i am open to using
: any package however.)
:
: i would like R to compute estimates for the 2 pareto
: parameters based on my dataset; what commands would
: achieve this?
:
: thanks
: -gong
:
Assuming you want to find the maximum likelihood estimate
use optim or nlm.