Re: [R] Distribution Fitting with R

2013-08-06 Thread S Ellison
> I want to actually fit a formal > statistical distribution to my data using the classical > methodologies (either Shapiro Wilk, Anderson Darling, > Chi-Square, etc.). You probably need to go find out what those things do. Two of them are tests for normality, not fitting methods or distribut

Re: [R] Distribution Fitting with R

2013-08-05 Thread David Carlson
t: Monday, August 5, 2013 1:11 PM To: Bert Gunter Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Distribution Fitting with R Hello Bert, Thank you for your comments. I want to actually fit a formal statistical distribution to my data using the classical methodologies (either Shapiro Wilk, Anderson Darli

Re: [R] Distribution Fitting with R

2013-08-05 Thread Paul Bernal
Hello Bert, Thank you for your comments. I want to actually fit a formal statistical distribution to my data using the classical methodologies (either Shapiro Wilk, Anderson Darling, Chi-Square, etc.). Once I have fitted a distribution then I will start generating random numbers and performing the

Re: [R] Distribution Fitting with R

2013-08-05 Thread Bert Gunter
Just sample with replacement from your empirical distribution? See: ?sample ## note the "replace" argument Other than that, I do not understand what you mean by "distribution fitting analysis." Cheers, Bert On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Paul Bernal wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Basically, I

[R] Distribution Fitting with R

2013-08-05 Thread Paul Bernal
Hello everyone, Basically, I want to perform some distribution fitting analysis to a particular data that I have. So the data I will be working with is structured as follows: *Vessel Size* * Number of Vessels* *Frequency* 1000-2000 TEUS