Multivariate t - parameter estimation

Fri, Nov 26, 2004 7:08 AM

Hi There,

I would like to estimate the parameters of a multi-variate 
t-distribution from a series of bivariate data. Can anyone suggest how 
this might be done in R? I typically use nlm() for fitting univariate 
distributions.

Thanks,

Ian

Ian Jonsen, Postdoctoral Fellow

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