[R] maximum likelihood example?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

fitdistr in MASS.  It's about as basic as you can get: iid samples from
standard distributions.

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

> I'm trying to get a grasp of maximum-likelihood estimation and would like to
> find a package that performs mle (hopefully a simple example). It seems as
> if there are plenty of packages that make use of different types of
> likelihood estimators, but none are of a simple, "newbie" type. Does anyone
> have a suggestion for which package would be the best for a mle example?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
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