Jenny Barnes <jmb <at> mssl.ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > Dear R-help community, > > Does anybody know of a stats function in R that tells you which > distribution best fits your data? I have tried look through the archives > but have only found functions that tell you if it's normal or log etc. > specifically - I am looking for a function that tells you (given a > timeseries) what the distribution is. > > Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated, > > All the best, > > Jenny Barnes > > jmb <at> mssl.ucl.ac.uk
The problem is that it's not generally a good idea to data-dredge in this way. Your best bet is to think about the characteristics of the data (discrete or continuous, non-negative or real, symmetric or skewed) and try to narrow it down to a few distributions -- then you can use fitdistr() (from the MASS package) or something similar to compare among them. If you say a little bit more about what you're trying to do with the data you might get some more specific advice. Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ 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.
