Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-19 Thread Ken Kleinman
There's at least one package that can do zero-inflated gamma regression (Rfast2::zigamma). I'm not sure it's ML, though. On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:17 AM Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Beware of adding a constant... the magnitude of the constant used can have > an outsized impact on the answer

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-19 Thread Marc Girondot via R-help
Another situation for the presence of 0 is about dosage when concentration is below the detection limit. It is not necessary to discretize the data. We propose a method here: Salvat-Leal I, Cortés-Gómez AA, Romero D, Girondot M (2022) New method for imputation of unquantifiable values using

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-19 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Beware of adding a constant... the magnitude of the constant used can have an outsized impact on the answer obtained. See e.g. https://gist.github.com/jdnewmil/99301a88de702ad2fcbaef33326b08b4 On January 19, 2023 3:49:29 AM PST, peter dalgaard wrote: >Not necessarily homework, Bert. There's a

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-19 Thread peter dalgaard
Not necessarily homework, Bert. There's a generic issue with MLE and rounded data, in that gamma densities may be 0 at the boundary but small numbers are represented as 0, making the log-likelihood -Inf. The cleanest way out is to switch to a discretized distribution in the likelihood, so

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-10 Thread Bert Gunter
Is this homework? This list has a no-homework policy. -- Bert On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:13 AM Nyasha wrote: > > Please how can one go about this one? I don't know how to go about it. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > __ >

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2023-01-10 Thread Nyasha
Please how can one go about this one? I don't know how to go about it. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] MLE packages

2019-10-22 Thread Mohan Ganesalingam
Hi Bert, thanks for the quick reply. I spent a while searching before I posted, and also read through the documentation for the mle fn and the maxLik and bbmle packages. As you say, it seems likely I'm reinventing something standard, but nothing I can find quite seems to do what I need. Hence

Re: [R] MLE packages

2019-10-21 Thread Bert Gunter
Are you familiar with R resources you can search? 1. CRAN task views: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ 2. For searching: https://rseek.org/ Searching on "maximum likelihood" there appeared to bring up relevant resources. 3. RStudio resources: https://education.rstudio.com/ Note: RStudio

[R] MLE packages

2019-10-21 Thread Mohan Ganesalingam
I'm fairly new to R. The language is amazing, but I'm having trouble navigating packages. I have a solution that handles the problems I'm working on, but I don't know if it could be solved more cleanly with mle, bbmle, maxLik, etc.. Here's an example problem first. I have run many WAV files

[R] MLE Estimation in Extreme Value Approach to VaR (using Frechet distribution)

2016-09-23 Thread Preetam Pal
Hi R-Users, I am trying to estimate 95%-le VaR (Value-at-Risk) of a portfolio using Extreme Value Theory. In particular, I'll use the Frechet distribution (heavy left tail), I have data on percentage returns ( R_t) for T = 5000 past dates. This data has been divided into g = 50 non-overlapping

[R] mle

2015-02-26 Thread pari hesabi
Hello, I am going to estimate the parameter of the count model: pr(N=n)= integration{B(x, alpha)-C(x,alpha)} by maximum likelihood estimation.  n-c(0,1,2,3)   and   F- (0,3,4,5) are the vectors of values and observed frequency respectively. The function C(x,alpha) is not defined for n=0, but

[R] MLE

2014-12-21 Thread pari hesabi
Dear Sir/Madam I am trying to get the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a parameter in a probability mass function. The problem is my pmf which includes a summation and one integral. it is not similar to other known pdfs or pmfs such as normal, exponential, poisson, . Does anybody know

Re: [R] MLE

2014-12-21 Thread Arne Henningsen
Dear Pari On 21 December 2014 at 06:59, pari hesabi statistic...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to get the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a parameter in a probability mass function. The problem is my pmf which includes a summation and one integral. it is not similar to other known pdfs or

Re: [R] MLE with parameters restricted to a defined range using bbmle

2014-12-10 Thread Bernardo Santos
Thanks, Rolf and Ben, Both solutions worked, but I finished by contraining parameters values using optim(). Best,Bernardo Niebuhr Em Segunda-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2014 18:36, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz escreveu: I know nothing about the bbmle package and its mle2()

[R] MLE with parameters restricted to a defined range using bbmle

2014-12-08 Thread Bernardo Santos
Dear all, I am fitting models to data with mle2 function of the bbmle package.In specific, I want to fit a power-law distribution model, as defined here (http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004v3.pdf), to data. However, one of the parameters - xmin -, must be necessarily greater than zero. What

Re: [R] MLE with parameters restricted to a defined range using bbmle

2014-12-08 Thread Rolf Turner
I know nothing about the bbmle package and its mle2() function, but it is a general truth that if you need to constrain a parameter to be positive in an optimisation procedure a simple and effective approach is to reparameterize using exp(). I.e. represent xmin as exp(lxmin) (say) and use

Re: [R] MLE with parameters restricted to a defined range using bbmle

2014-12-08 Thread Ben Bolker
Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz writes: I know nothing about the bbmle package and its mle2() function, but it is a general truth that if you need to constrain a parameter to be positive in an optimisation procedure a simple and effective approach is to reparameterize using

[R] MLE

2014-10-31 Thread Parvin Dehghani
HiI have a probability mass function similar to pr(N=n)= integral(((2-x)^n)*(exp(ax-2))) - integral (((5-ax)^n)),   both integrals are defined over the interval(0,2) with respect to x. I am going to estimate the parameter (a) with method of maximum likelihood estimation. The loglikelihood   is

[R] mle together with pnorm

2014-05-28 Thread Alexander Ketonen
Hi, The problem I have is that the standard errors for the estimates doesn't make any sense. Here is the background: The values in vector a are seen as the true values and I want to estimate them using mle. I make 100 disturbed vectors from a by adding noise, N(0,sigma^2). For every disturbed

[R] MLE

2014-05-04 Thread pari hesabi
Hello I know how to use R for estimating a parameter by using MLE if I have a simple function f(x,a). I am trying to design a program for a complicated function such as: g(.)=sum(integral(f(x,a,t,k))) where (a) is a parameter(needs to be estimated) , integral depends on (t) and sum is over

[R] MLE for probit regression. How to avoid p=1 or p=0

2013-05-27 Thread knouri
Dear all: I am writing the following small function for a probit likelihood. As indicated, in order to avoid p=1 or p=0, I defined some precisions. I feel however, that there might be a better way to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: [R] MLE for probit regression. How to avoid p=1 or p=0

2013-05-27 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, You write a function of two arguments, 'par' and 'data' and do not use them in the body of the function. Furthermore, what are b0, b1x and y? Also, take a look at ?.Machine. In particular, couldn't you use precision0 - .Machine$double.eps precision1 - 1 - .Machine$double.eps instead

[R] mle function

2013-04-10 Thread roger . campana
Hallo, I'm working with the mle function and I would like to ask you a couple of questions. My goal is to construct the historical value of v1(t), v2(t) and v3(t) using the maximum likelihood estimation. So, I need to optimize the following log-likelihood: sum(E1_f[t,]*(v1*teta1[] +

[R] MLE with R

2012-12-23 Thread sensei88
Hi everyone, I'm writing a thesis about financial copulas (gaussian and t-student copulas) but i have problems about the R-code. I'll explain better: i downloaded 10 time series about financial indeces and i have to apply the gaussian copula. First i have to divide the ranks of the osservations by

Re: [R] MLE with R

2012-12-23 Thread radhi
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Re: [R] MLE of negative binomial distribution parameters

2012-10-21 Thread Zoraida
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Re: [R] MLE of negative binomial distribution parameters

2012-10-20 Thread Ben Bolker
Zoraida zmorales at ingellicom.com writes: I need to estimate the parameters for negative binomial distribution (pdf) using maximun likelihood, I also need to estimate the parameter for the Poisson by ML, which can be done by hand, but later I need to conduct a likelihood ratio test between

[R] MLE of negative binomial distribution parameters

2012-10-19 Thread Zoraida
I need to estimate the parameters for negative binomial distribution (pdf) using maximun likelihood, I also need to estimate the parameter for the Poisson by ML, which can be done by hand, but later I need to conduct a likelihood ratio test between these two distributions and I don't know how to

Re: [R] MLE

2012-07-03 Thread Bert Gunter
Homework?? We don't do homework here. If not, ?optim or look at the CRAN Optimize task view for optimizers. There is even a maxLik package that might be useful. -- Bert On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Ali Tamaddoni alicivilizati...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All I have a data frame called nbd

[R] MLE

2012-07-02 Thread Ali Tamaddoni
Hi All I have a data frame called nbd with two columns (x and T). Based on this dataset I want to find the parameters of a distribution with the following log-liklihood function and with r and alpha as its parameters: log(gamma(nbd$x+r))-log(gamma(r))+r*log(alpha)-(r+nbd$x)*log(nbd$T+alpha)

[R] MLE for estimating the parameters of the TVECM in R

2012-05-03 Thread rizal yudha tama
Dear Mr. Matthieu Stigler i so excited for your package 'tsDyn'. firstly introduce myself, i student at Gadjah Mada University,Indonesia. i'am new user of R and applying it for solving Bi-Variate ( interest rate and inflation ) with threshold vector error correction model. now, i writing my final

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-14 Thread Kristian Lind
HI Berend, Thank you for your reply. 2011/4/13 Berend Hasselman b...@xs4all.nl Questions: 1. why are you defining Bo within a loop? 2. Why are you doing library(nleqslv) within the loop? Yes, I see what you mean. There's no reason for defining that within the loop. Doing both those

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-14 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 14-04-2011, at 09:00, Kristian Lind wrote: HI Berend, Thank you for your reply. .. Finally the likelihood function at the end of your code #Maximum likelihood estimation using mle package library(stats4) #defining loglikelighood function #T - length(v) #minuslogLik -

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-13 Thread Kristian Lind
Albyn and others, Thank you for your replies. In order to be more specific I've constructed my program. I know it's long and in some places quite messy. It works until the last part where the log-likelihood function has to be defined and maximized wrt the parameters. The log-likelihood has the

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-13 Thread Berend Hasselman
Questions: 1. why are you defining Bo within a loop? 2. Why are you doing library(nleqslv) within the loop? Doing both those statements outside the loop once is more efficient. In your transdens function you are not using the function argument parameters, why? Shouldn't there be a

[R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-10 Thread Kristian Lind
Hi there, I'm trying to solve a ML problem where the likelihood function is a function of two numerical procedures and I'm having some problems figuring out how to do this. The log-likelihood function is of the form L(c,psi) = 1/T sum [log (f(c, psi)) - log(g(c,psi))], where c is a 2xT matrix of

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-10 Thread Albyn Jones
Hi Kristian The obvious approach is to treat it like any other MLE problem: evaluation of the log-likelihood is done as often as necessary for the optimizer you are using: eg a call to optim(psi,LL,...) where LL(psi) evaluates the log likelihood at psi. There may be computational

Re: [R] MLE where loglikelihood function is a function of numerical solutions

2011-04-10 Thread Albyn Jones
to clarify: by if you knew that LL(psi+eps) were well approximated by LL(psi), for the values of eps used to evaluate numerical derivatives of LL. I mean the derivatives of LL(psi+eps) are close to the derivatives of LL(psi), and perhaps you would want the hessian to be close as well.

[R] MLE estimation

2011-02-27 Thread Ning Cheng
Dear List, This problem is more a statistic one than a R one. Any one can recommend me some references website or online paper on maximum likelihood estimation?I'm now working on that,while still doubt how to prove that the estimated parameters are normal distributed. Thanks for your time and

Re: [R] MLE estimation

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Lamias
Check out Casella and Berger's Statistical Inference.  ISBN 978-81-315-0394-2 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood as an online reference. --Mark J. Lamias From: Ning Cheng wakinchaue...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: [R] MLE

Re: [R] MLE estimation

2011-02-27 Thread David Cross
I am partial to Gary King's book: Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference (University of Michigan Press, 1998) Cheers David Cross d.cr...@tcu.edu www.davidcross.us On Feb 27, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Ning Cheng wrote: Dear List, This problem is more a

[R] MLE

2011-02-23 Thread dpender
Hi, I am having problems carrying out a mle for 3 parameters in a non-homogenous poisson process. I am trying to use the optim function to minimise the -ve log-likelihood. When I use assumed values of my three parameters (20,1,1) the -ve log-likelihood function returns a value of 1309122 but I

[R] mle

2011-02-22 Thread dpender
Hi, I am looking for some help regarding the use of the mle function. I am trying to get mle for 3 parameters (theta0, theta1 and theta2) that have been defined in the the log-likelihood equation as theta0=theta[1], theta1=theta[2] and theta2=theta[3]. My R code for mle is: mle(Poisson.lik,

[R] mle

2011-02-22 Thread dpender
Hi, I am looking for some help regarding the use of the mle function. I am trying to get mle for 3 parameters (theta0, theta1 and theta2) that have been defined in the the log-likelihood equation as theta0=theta[1], theta1=theta[2] and theta2=theta[3]. My R code for mle is: mle(Poisson.lik,

Re: [R] mle question

2011-02-07 Thread Antje Niederlein
Hello, is there somebody who can help me with my question (see below)? Antje On 1 February 2011 09:09, Antje Niederlein niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de wrote: Hello, I tried to use mle to fit a distribution(zero-inflated negbin for count data). My call is very simple: mle(ll) ll() takes the

[R] mle question

2011-02-07 Thread Antje Niederlein
Hello, is there somebody who can help me with my question (see below)? Antje On 1 February 2011 09:09, Antje Niederlein niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de wrote: Hello, I tried to use mle to fit a distribution(zero-inflated negbin for count data). My call is very simple: mle(ll) ll() takes

[R] mle question

2011-02-01 Thread Antje Niederlein
Hello, I tried to use mle to fit a distribution(zero-inflated negbin for count data). My call is very simple: mle(ll) ll() takes the three parameters, I'd like to be estimated (size, mu and prob). But within the ll() function I have to judge if the current parameter-set gives a nice fit or

[R] MLE for multivariate t-distribution

2010-05-28 Thread christine . kohl
Hey, I've got a problem with the estimation of a multivariate t-distribution. I've got 200 observations vor 20 variables. Now I want to estimate the parameters of the densityfunction of the multivarate t-distribution with mean=0. I found a function mst.mle in the package sn, but here it is

[R] MLE optimization

2010-01-04 Thread jckval
Folks, I'm kind of newbie in R, but with some background in Matlab and VBA programming. Last month I was implementing a Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Matlab, but the algorithms didn't converge. So my academic advisor suggested using R. My problem is: estimate a mean reverting jump diffusion

Re: [R] MLE optimization

2010-01-04 Thread Ravi Varadhan
...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of jckval Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 5:53 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] MLE optimization Folks, I'm kind of newbie in R, but with some background in Matlab and VBA programming. Last month I was implementing a Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Matlab

Re: [R] MLE optimization

2010-01-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 1/4/10, jckval jcnogueirafi...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively, could anyone suggest a good MLE tutorial and package? Search for MLE on Rseek.org and among other results check the Task Views. Also, search for MLE in vignettes on RSiteSearch [1]. [1]

Re: [R] MLE optimization

2010-01-04 Thread jckval
://n4.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=998666i=2] On Behalf Of jckval Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 5:53 PM To: [hidden email]http://n4.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=998666i=3 Subject: [R] MLE optimization Folks, I'm kind of newbie in R, but with some background

Re: [R] MLE for a t distribution

2009-12-14 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
Brian Ripley sometimes on this list or elsewhere suggested to reparametrize as 1/k. I have used that with good results. But you should be aware that usually data contains very little information about k, so thhat if you do not have a lot more than 100 observations you coukld be out of luck. You

[R] MLE for a t distribution

2009-12-10 Thread Barbara Gonzalez
Given X1,...,Xn ~ t_k(mu,sigma) student t distribution with k degrees of freedom, mean mu and standard deviation sigma, I want to obtain the MLEs of the three parameters (mu, sigma and k). When I try traditional optimization techniques I don't find the MLEs. Usually I just get k-infty. Does

Re: [R] MLE for a t distribution

2009-12-10 Thread Albyn Jones
k - infinity gives the normal distribution. You probably don't care much about the difference between k=1000 and k=10, so you might try reparametrizing df on [1,infinity) to a parameter on [0,1]... albyn On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:14:26PM -0600, Barbara Gonzalez wrote: Given X1,...,Xn ~

Re: [R] MLE for a t distribution

2009-12-10 Thread Barbara Gonzalez
Thank you. I actually found fitdistr() in the package MASS, that estimates the df, but it does a very bad job. I know that the main problem is that the t distribution has a lot of local maxima, and of course, when k-infty we have the Normal distribution, which has nice and easy to obtain MLEs. I

Re: [R] MLE in R

2009-12-07 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
Hello Liang, Besides looking at ?optim, you may also want to look into this nice working example www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/documents/mle/mle.html Regards, Francisco Francisco J. Zagmutt Vose Consulting 1643 Spruce St., Boulder Boulder, CO, 80302 USA www.voseconsulting.com Liang Wang

[R] MLE in R

2009-12-06 Thread Liang Wang
Hi, dear R users I am a newbie in R and I need to use the method of meximum likelihood to fit a Weibull distribution to my survival data. I use optim as follows: optim(c(1.14,0.25),weibull.like,mydata=mydata,method=L-BFGS-B,hessian = TRUE) My question is: how do I setup the constraints that

Re: [R] MLE in R

2009-12-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
Please read ?optim and about its arguments lower, upperBounds on the variables for the L-BFGS-B method. Uwe Ligges Liang Wang wrote: Hi, dear R users I am a newbie in R and I need to use the method of meximum likelihood to fit a Weibull distribution to my survival data. I use optim as

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-28 Thread Terry Therneau
In general Poisson data consists of a pair of numbers (y,n), where y is the event count for the unit and n is the size of the unit. The Poisson MLE is sum(y)/sum(n). A general example is county level data where y is the number of events (rare cancer) and n is the county size. Two special cases

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-27 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:25 PM, ankush...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am using the fitdistr of MASS to get the MLE for the lambda of a Poisson distribution. When i run the fitdistr command, i get an output that looks like - lambda 3.75 (0.03343) Couple of questions - 1. is the

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-27 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
What is wrong with using mean(x) to get the MLE of the poisson lambda? Kjetil On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:17 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:25 PM, ankush...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am using the fitdistr of MASS to get the MLE for the lambda of a

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Ehlers
Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: What is wrong with using mean(x) to get the MLE of the poisson lambda? and mean(x)/length(x) to get its estimated variance. -Peter Ehlers Kjetil On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:17 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:25 PM,

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-27 Thread Ankush Bhargava
lambda? Thanks again! Ankush From: Peter Ehlers ehl...@ucalgary.ca To: Kjetil Halvorsen kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, October 27, 2009 10:15:31 AM Subject: Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr Kjetil Halvorsen wrote

Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Ehlers
Ehlers ehl...@ucalgary.ca To: Kjetil Halvorsen kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch; ankush...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, October 27, 2009 10:15:31 AM Subject: Re: [R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: What is wrong with using

[R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2009-10-26 Thread Balzer Susanne
... gamlss has a great documentation, but it's a bit overwhelming. Kind regards Susanne Susanne Balzer PhD Student Institute of Marine Research N-5073 Bergen, Norway Phone: +47 55 23 69 45 susanne.balzer at imr.no www.imr.no [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

[R] MLE for lambda of Poisson distribution using fitdistr

2009-10-26 Thread ankush2kn
Hi, I am using the fitdistr of MASS to get the MLE for the lambda of a Poisson distribution. When i run the fitdistr command, i get an output that looks like - lambda 3.75 (0.03343) Couple of questions - 1. is the MLE 0.03343 for the lambda of the given distribution then?

[R] mle from stats4

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Collins
I am using mle as a wrapper from optim( ). How would I extract the convergence code, to know that optim( ) converged properly? Thanks, Stephen Collins, MPP | Analyst Global Strategy | Aon Benfield [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] mle from stats4

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Stephen Collins wrote: I am using mle as a wrapper from optim( ). How would I extract the convergence code, to know that optim( ) converged properly? The return value from optim is contained in the details slot, so f...@details$convergence [1] 0 -- O__ Peter Dalgaard

Re: [R] mle from stats4

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Bolker
Stephen Collins-6 wrote: I am using mle as a wrapper from optim( ). How would I extract the convergence code, to know that optim( ) converged properly? library(stats4) example(mle) slotNames(fit1) f...@details f...@details$convergence -- View this message in context:

[R] MLE estimation of constrained mean Singh-Maddala distribution

2009-07-31 Thread Josh Parcel
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM I am trying to fit a distribution to a dataset. The distribution that I am currently considering is the (3-parameter) Singh-Maddala (Burr) distribution. The final model will fix the mean of the distribution to a given value and estimate the remaining parameters

[R] mle() question

2009-05-22 Thread Stephen Collins
Is there a way to code the mle() function in library stats4 such that it switches optimizing methods midstream (i.e. BFGS to Newton and back to BFGS, etc.)? Thanks, Stephen Collins, MPP | Analyst Health Benefits | Aon Consulting [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-11 Thread _nico_
Just wanted to thank everyone for their help, I think I mostly managed to solve my problem. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MLE-for-bimodal-distribution-tp22954970p23000785.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Apr-09 23:39:36, Ted Harding wrote: On 08-Apr-09 22:10:26, Ravi Varadhan wrote: EM algorithm is a better approach for maximum likelihood estimation of finite-mixture models than direct maximization of the mixture log-likelihood. Due to its ascent properties, it is guaranteed to

[R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread _nico_
Hello everyone, I'm trying to use mle from package stats4 to fit a bi/multi-modal distribution to some data, but I have some problems with it. Here's what I'm doing (for a bimodal distribution): # Build some fake binormally distributed data, the procedure fails also with real data, so the

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Bolker
_nico_ wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to use mle from package stats4 to fit a bi/multi-modal distribution to some data, but I have some problems with it. Here's what I'm doing (for a bimodal distribution): # Build some fake binormally distributed data, the procedure fails also

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Bert Gunter
, of course. -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics 650-467-7374 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:47 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] MLE

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread _nico_
Ben Bolker wrote: Here's some tweaked code that works. [cut] Thanks, that saved me a few headaches. I also find out the answer to my (dumb) question #5, which is obviously to call f with the returned parameters or use the logLik function. I will have a look at the mixture model

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Rubén Roa-Ureta
_nico_ wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to use mle from package stats4 to fit a bi/multi-modal distribution to some data, but I have some problems with it. Here's what I'm doing (for a bimodal distribution): # Build some fake binormally distributed data, the procedure fails also with real

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Ravi Varadhan
of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu - Original Message - From: Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 4:14 pm Subject: Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution To: 'Ben Bolker

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Apr-09 22:10:26, Ravi Varadhan wrote: EM algorithm is a better approach for maximum likelihood estimation of finite-mixture models than direct maximization of the mixture log-likelihood. Due to its ascent properties, it is guaranteed to converge to a local maximum. By theoretical

Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Ravi Varadhan
: rvarad...@jhmi.edu - Original Message - From: ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk (Ted Harding) Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 7:43 pm Subject: Re: [R] MLE for bimodal distribution To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch On 08-Apr-09 22:10:26, Ravi Varadhan wrote: EM algorithm is a better approach

[R] MLE for right-censored data with covariates

2009-02-05 Thread krogovin
I am a student (and very to new to R) working on a senior design project that is attempting to determine the demand distributions for single copy newspaper draws at individual sales outlet locations. Our sales data is right-censored, because sell-outs constitute a majority of the data, and we

Re: [R] MLE Constraints

2008-10-16 Thread LFRC
Dears, Any help? Thanks, LFRC LFRC wrote: Dears, I'm trying to find the parameters (a,b, ... l) that optimize the function (Model) described below. 1) How can I set some constraints with MLE2 function? I want to set p10, p20, p30, p1p3. 2) The code is giving the following

[R] MLE Constraints

2008-10-15 Thread LFRC
Dears, I'm trying to find the parameters (a,b, ... l) that optimize the function (Model) described below. 1) How can I set some constraints with MLE2 function? I want to set p10, p20, p30, p1p3. 2) The code is giving the following warning. Warning: optimization did not converge (code 1)

[R] MLE

2008-10-08 Thread Ron Michael
May I ask one statistics related question please? I have one query on MLE itself. It's property says that, for large sample size it is normally distributed [i.e. asymptotically normal]. On the other hand it is Efficient as well. My doubt is, how this two asymptotic properties exist

[R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2008-06-11 Thread Fox, Aaron
Greetings, all I am having difficulty getting the fitdistr() function to return without an error on my data. Specifically, what I'm trying to do is get a parameter estimation for fracture intensity data in a well / borehole. Lower bound is 0 (no fractures in the selected data interval), and upper

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Fox, Aaron wrote: Greetings, all I am having difficulty getting the fitdistr() function to return without an error on my data. Specifically, what I'm trying to do is get a parameter estimation for fracture intensity data in a well / borehole. Lower bound is 0 (no fractures in the selected data

Re: [R] MLE Estimation of Gamma Distribution Parameters for data with 'zeros'

2008-06-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Fox, Aaron Afox at golder.com writes: Greetings, all I am having difficulty getting the fitdistr() function to return without an error on my data. Specifically, what I'm trying to do is get a parameter estimation for fracture intensity data in a well / borehole. Lower bound is 0 (no

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-09 Thread Martin Maechler
] k To: kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] k Cc: r-help@r-project.org k Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:02 AM k Subject: Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution On Thu, 8 May 2008, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-09 Thread Spencer Graves
, log) : generates NaNs k Thanks a lot, k Kate k - Original Message - k From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] k To: kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] k Cc: r-help@r-project.org k Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:02 AM k Subject: Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t

[R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-08 Thread kate
I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found that it looks like non-central t distribution. I would like to get MLE for mu and df. I found an example to find MLE for gamma distribution from fitting distributions with R: library(stats4) ## loading package stats4

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/8/2008 10:34 AM, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found that it looks like non-central t distribution. I would like to get MLE for mu and df. I found an example to find MLE for gamma distribution from fitting distributions with R:

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 8 May 2008, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found that it looks like non-central t distribution. I would like to get MLE for mu and df. So you mean 'non-central'? See ?dt. I found an example to find MLE for gamma distribution from

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-08 Thread kate
Message - From: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution On 5/8/2008 10:34 AM, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

2008-05-08 Thread David Scott
QRMlib has routines for fitting t distributions. Have a look at that package. Also sn has routines for skew-t distributions David Scott On Thu, 8 May 2008, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found that it looks like non-central t

Re: [R] MLE for censored distributions in R

2008-01-23 Thread Terry Therneau
Hi just wondering if there is a package that can get the maximum likelihood or method of moments estimator for distributions with censored data? The distributions I'm interested in are: Exponential, pareto, beta, gamma and lognormal. Look at the survreg function in the survival library.

Re: [R] MLE for censored distributions in R

2008-01-23 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le mar. 22 janv. à 17:47, Thomas Downey a écrit : Hi just wondering if there is a package that can get the maximum likelihood or method of moments estimator for distributions with censored data? The distributions I'm interested in are: Exponential, pareto, beta, gamma and

[R] MLE for censored distributions in R

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Downey
Hi just wondering if there is a package that can get the maximum likelihood or method of moments estimator for distributions with censored data? The distributions I'm interested in are: Exponential, pareto, beta, gamma and lognormal. -- View this message in context:

[R] mle

2008-01-08 Thread Antonio Gasparrini
Hello, I'm trying to obtain a maximum likelyhood estimate of a gaussian model by the MLE command, as I did with a Poisson model: x - rep(1:2,each=500) y - rnorm(length(x), mean=10+3*x, sd=1) glm1 - glm(y ~ x , family=gaussian()) library(stats4) func1 - function(alfa=10, beta=3, sigma=1)

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