Hi: The R package below may be of use to you. https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-1/RJournal_2009-1_Ardia+et+al.pdf
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Ranjan Maitra <mai...@email.com> wrote: > Would package "teigen" help? > > Ranjan > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:41:34 +0200 vare vare via R-help < > r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I am new to R (before used python exclusively and would actually call > the R solution for this issue inside a python notebook, hope that doesn’t > disqualify me right of the batch). > > > > Right now I am looking for a piece of software to fit a 1D data sample > to a mixture of t-distributions. > > > > I searched quite a while already and it seems to be that this is a > somehwat obscure endeavor as most search results turn up for mixture of > gaussians (what I am not interested here). > > > > The most promising candidates so far are the "AdMit" and "MitSEM" R > packages. However I do not know R and find the description of these > packages rather comlple and it seems their core objective is not the > fitting of mixtures of t’s but instead use this as a step to accomplish > something else. > > > > This is in a nutshell what I want the software to accomplish: > > > > Fitting a mixture of t-distributions to some data and estimate the > "location" "scale" and "degrees of freedom" for each. > > > > I hope someone can point me to a simple package, I can’t believe that > this is such an obscure use case. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted > on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those > needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate > addresses. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
