Message-ID: <loom.20080905T191319-263@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2008-09-05T19:14:22Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: 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