Re: [R] implementing Maximum Likelihood with distrMod when only the PDF is known

2009-06-24 Thread Matthias Kohl
Dear Guillaume, retrospectively, I'm not sure if the decision to have spezial initialize methods is the optimal way to go. In distrMod and our other packages on robust statistics we don't introduce special initialize methods, but use so-called generating functions. This approach has the advant

Re: [R] implementing Maximum Likelihood with distrMod when only the PDF is known

2009-06-23 Thread guillaume.martin
Dear Mathias, That's pretty amazing, thanks a lot ! I'll have to look all this through because I don't easily understand why each part has to be set up, in particular the "initialize method" part seems crucial and is not easy to intuit. From what I get, the actual name we give to a parameter (m

Re: [R] implementing Maximum Likelihood with distrMod when only the PDF is known

2009-06-23 Thread Matthias Kohl
Dear Guillaume, thanks for your interest in the distrMod package. Regarding your question I took up your example and put a file under: http://www.stamats.de/distrModExample.R Hope that helps ... Don't hesitate to contact me if you have further questions! Best, Matthias guillaume.martin schr