[R] mle in the gamma model

[Prof Brian Ripley]

library(MASS)
?fitdistr

You can also use survreg (survival) and glm (with some help from functions 
in MASS for the shape).

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Dominique Couturier wrote:

> I'm looking for a classic equivalent of the wle.gamma function (library 
> wle) that estimate robustly the shape and the scale parameters of gamma 
> data.
> I have a vector of iid gamma rv :
>  >data=rgamma(100,shape=10,scale=3)
> and a vector of their weights:
>  >weights=c(rep(.5/70,70),rep(.25/20,20),rep(.25/10,10))
> and want to estimate the scale and shape of the gamma distribution.
> Does such a function exists?

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