[R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R

[Spencer Graves]

      If, however, you are more interested in general methods for 
maximizing a likelihood function, I suggest you look at "optim", work 
the examples on the help page, etc. 

      hope this helps.  spencer graves

DivineSAAM at aol.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Use
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>  
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>>x=rnorm(100, mean=3, sd=1)
>>library(MASS)
>>fitdistr(x, "normal")
>>    
>>
>      mean          sd    
>  2.93666631   0.99673982 
> (0.09967398) (0.07048015)
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>Hope this helps,
>
>Shrieb
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