Re: [R] Meaning of Positive LogLikelihood

2008-07-11 Thread Erik Iverson
Gundala Viswanath wrote: Hi, I am I trying to learn mixture models of gamma distributions. However sometime the calculation of the log-likelihood it gives is positive instead of the usual negative, in particular when the number of samples are small. My questions are: 1. Is it possible that a lo

[R] Meaning of Positive LogLikelihood

2008-07-11 Thread Gundala Viswanath
Hi, I am I trying to learn mixture models of gamma distributions. However sometime the calculation of the log-likelihood it gives is positive instead of the usual negative, in particular when the number of samples are small. My questions are: 1. Is it possible that a loglikelihood is positive? 2.