Thanks Ben That was the one I'd remembered but couldn't find.
Mark Leeds also told me about DistributionFits(fBasics), which I hadn't seen. There seems to be only a little overlap between the two. Could I trouble you to expand on AIC (esp. what the function name and package is to apply it to the output from these two functions)? I just read the help provided for each and neither mentions AIC. Thanks again Ben Ted Ben Bolker wrote: > > Ted Byers <r.ted.byers <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> >> I found this a few months ago, but for the life of me I can't remember >> what >> the function or package was, and I have had no luck finding it this week. >> >> I have found, again, the functions for working with distributions like >> Cauchy, F, normal, &c., and ks.test, but I have not found the functions >> for >> estimating the distribution parameters given a vector of values. >> > > Look at the fitdistr function in the MASS package. Consider > AIC comparisons for ranking the fits to these non-nested models. > > good luck > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/library-function-that-estimates-parameters-of-well-known-distributions-from-empirical-data--tp19323700p19339442.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
