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outout clarification of fitdist {fitdistrplus} output
2 messages · Alexander Kapeller, Ben Bolker
Alexander Kapeller <mail <at> alexander-kapeller.de> writes:
Hello, I like to fit data against a negative binominal distribution
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I am wondering how to translate the size and the mu parameter into the usual number of successes (n) and the contiuous probability (p) . To me it is not clear what these mu and size parameter declares.
See the help page for ?dnbinom, which gives the details of the different parameterizations ... Ben Bolker