Actually I have already done a search on that but it was not much of a help. That is why I posted it in the r-help in case it was much more helpful.
Thank you. Kind regards Maria ________________________________________ From: David Winsemius [dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: 15 March 2011 16:19 To: Lathouri, Maria Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote: > Dear all, > > I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and > then to fit a distribution to that, probably a weibull or lognormal. > > I have plotted the ecdf as >> plot(ecdf(x)) > > but I haven't managed to fit the distribution. I have as well > attached the data. Try a search on one of the R search sites with: "Fitting distributions with R" # use the quotes > > I would appreciate if you could help me on that. > > Thank you. > > Kind regards > Maria > <example.txt>______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.