From: Edward Sun
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am using R version 1.8.1. I am doing following tast:
First generate 100 Gaussion(3,1) numbers, then write the
likelihood function
to estimate the parameters of Gaussian distribution by direct
maximizing the
likelihood function.
My likelihood function is:
fn<-function(x)
(-50*log((sd(x))^2))-50*log(sqrt(2*pi))-(1/2*((mean(x))^2))*(
sum((x-(mean(x))^2))
After I input above function, the '' >'' turned to be '' +
''. and it did
not work.
I am looking for the help to solve this tast by writting a likelihood
function.
Thanks a lot.
Best regards.
edward sun
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