[R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation

[Ben Bolker]

Arun Kumar Saha <arun.kumar.saha <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> hi all,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do Maximum Likelihood Estimation in R?
> 

  Unfortunately this question is ***way*** too vague for us
to answer adequately.  A short answer is that R provides general-purpose
minimization functions (optim, nlm, nlminb) that you can use to
minimize a negative log-likelihood function; the mle() function
in the stats4 package is a wrapper for this function.  You have
to define your own likelihood function:
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/documents/mle/mle.html
may be helpful.

   Ben Bolker