Please guide me through to resolve the error message that I get this is what i have done.
>x1<- rnorm(100,2,1) >x1fitbeta<-fitdistr(x1,"beta") Error in fitdistr(x1, "beta") : 'start' must be a named list Yes, I do understand that sometime for the distribution to converge to the given set of data, it requires initial parameters of the distribution, to start off with. Hence, i tried this >x1fitbeta<-fitdistr(x1,densfun=dbeta, start=list(shape1=2,shape2=3)) Error in optim(x = c(1.89074018737135, 1.52649293971978, 2.19950245230280, : initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite I tried with "f" and "chi-square" what i did with "t". Please find below the output. > x1fitt<-fitdistr(x1,"t") Error in fitdistr(x1, "t") : optimization failed In addition: Warning messages: 1: In log(s) : NaNs produced 2: In log(s) : NaNs produced 3: In log(s) : NaNs produced 4: In log(s) : NaNs produced 5: In log(s) : NaNs produced 6: In log(s) : NaNs produced > x1fitt<-fitdistr(x1,"t", df=1) Warning messages: 1: In log(s) : NaNs produced 2: In log(s) : NaNs produced > x1fitf<-fitdistr(x1,"f",start=list(df1=2,df2=3)) Warning message: In df(x, df1, df2, log) : NaNs produced > x1fitf df1 df2 5.6733242 4.4962519 (1.3407776) (0.9016752) >x1fitchi<-fitdistr(x1,"chi-squared",df=3) Error in fitdistr(x1, "chi-squared", df = 3) : 'start' must be a named list It is the same as what i gave for beta?!! > x1fitbeta<-fitdistr(x1,"beta", start=list(shape1=2,shape2=3)) Error in optim(x = c(1.89074018737135, 1.52649293971978, 2.19950245230280, : initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite What is the right syntax....why do I get error for only some, what are the exceptions? I dont know how rectify this error. please resolve Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/fitting-distributions-using-fitdistr-MASS-tp3492103p3492103.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.