Hello everyone, I was trying to do some distribution fitting with a numerical field called Tolls. The sample size = 999 rows.
Basically I assigned the Toll data to a new variable K by doing: k<-dtest$Toll After that, tried to fit a gamma distribution by doing: fitG<-fitdist(k, "gamma") Then the following messages showed (oh and I checked for empty rows before doing this): Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced Warning in dgamma(c(363328L, 376216L, 367032L, 314826L, 311892L, 313340L, : NaNs produced [1] "Error in optim(par = vstart, fn = fnobj, fix.arg = fix.arg, obs = data, : \n non-finite finite-difference value [2]\n" attr(,"class") [1] "try-error" attr(,"condition") <simpleError in optim(par = vstart, fn = fnobj, fix.arg = fix.arg, obs = data, ddistnam = ddistname, hessian = TRUE, method = meth, lower = lower, upper = upper, ...): non-finite finite-difference value [2]> Error in fitdist(k, "gamma") : the function mle failed to estimate the parameters, with the error code 100 > [[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.