library/function that estimates parameters of well known distributions from empirical data?
Ted Byers <r.ted.byers <at> gmail.com> writes:
I found this a few months ago, but for the life of me I can't remember what the function or package was, and I have had no luck finding it this week. I have found, again, the functions for working with distributions like Cauchy, F, normal, &c., and ks.test, but I have not found the functions for estimating the distribution parameters given a vector of values.
Look at the fitdistr function in the MASS package. Consider AIC comparisons for ranking the fits to these non-nested models. good luck Ben Bolker