On Mon, 18 May 2009, Debbie Zhang wrote:
Based on a set of binomial sample data, how would you utilize the "nlm"
function in R to estimate the true proportion of the population?
I can't see why anyone would want to use nlm() for this. The sample
proportion is the MLE, and binom.test() gives an exact confidence
interval.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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