[R] estimate the parameter of exponential distribution, etc.

[Bickel, David]

Given a numeric vector of observations, does R have any generic way to estimate the parameters of commonly used distributions (exponential, gamma, etc.) without numerically optimizing the likelihood function?

Thanks,
David
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