Estimating Weibull parameters
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Hagen [ISO-8859-1] Schmöller wrote:
I have a vector of Weibull distributed observations and I would like to estimate the parameters "shape" and "scale" of the Weibull distribution. Is there a way to do this in R?
Many ways. Perhaps the simplest is function fitdistr in package MASS. Another is via survreg() in package survival.
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