On 9/3/06, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to fit Pareto distribution to some data. MASS package does
not support Pareto distribution. Is there some alternative way?
Actually fitdistr{MASS} does if you supply the pdf for a Pareto.
That is not in base R, but easy to
Paul,
Package lmomco fits generalized pareto (three parameter) using method
of L-moments. I suspect that other packages that Brian identified
use method of moments or other.
William
On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I am trying to fit Pareto distribution to some
On 9/4/06, William Asquith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package lmomco fits generalized pareto (three parameter) using method
of L-moments. I suspect that other packages that Brian identified
use method of moments or other.
That is excellent to learn that, William. Thanks.
Paul
On Sep 3,
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I am trying to fit Pareto distribution to some data. MASS package does
not support Pareto distribution. Is there some alternative way?
Actually fitdistr{MASS} does if you supply the pdf for a Pareto.
That is not in base R, but easy to write for
