Dear lagreene, See the second example in require(MASS) ?fitdistr
HTH, Jorge On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:15 PM, lagreene <lagreene...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how m and s are calculated for a t > distribution? > > I thought m was the sample mean and s the standard deviation- but obviously > I'm wrong as this doesn'y give the same answer. > > Thank you > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/fitdistr-for-t-distribution-tp23550779p23550779.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. > [[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.