Message-ID: <3DFC71B0.3030407@colorado.edu>
Date: 2002-12-15T13:13:03Z
From: Bill Oliver
Subject: maximum likelihood example?
In-Reply-To: <000501c2a40e$7f3e6c50$0400a8c0@toastman>
Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> I'm trying to get a grasp of maximum-likelihood estimation and would like to
> find a package that performs mle (hopefully a simple example). It seems as
> if there are plenty of packages that make use of different types of
> likelihood estimators, but none are of a simple, "newbie" type. Does anyone
> have a suggestion for which package would be the best for a mle example?
>
I would suggest that you check out the very good book by Yudi Pawitan
entitled "In all likelihood". He provides the R code for *all* of the
examples and figures in the book at the following web page.
http://statistics.ucc.ie/staff/yudi/
-Bill