Re: [R] using near-zero probabilities in optimization

Dear Ben I haven't looked at the profiles yet, I'm not sure how to. I'm doing population reconstruction from age-at-harvest data. I'm using a multinomial distribution to model the observed harvest numbers. But I didn't know about the Dirichlet-Multinomial so far. I think that might really be a

Re: [R] using near-zero probabilities in optimization

Benedikt Gehr ieu.uzh.ch> writes: > > Hi there > > I am using mle2 for a multinomial likelihood optimization problem. My > function works fine when I'm using simulated data, however my cell > probabilities of the true data for the multinomial likelihood are > sometimes very small (in some ca

[R] using near-zero probabilities in optimization

Hi there I am using mle2 for a multinomial likelihood optimization problem. My function works fine when I'm using simulated data, however my cell probabilities of the true data for the multinomial likelihood are sometimes very small (in some cases <0.00...) and the estimated point estimates f