[R] estimating rho of Poisson distributed data

[Titus von der Malsburg]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:19:23AM -0500, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Titus von der Malsburg wrote:
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> >Mean and variance of Poisson distributed data are specified by \rho.
> >How can I estimate \rho for a set of measurements in R?
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> rho <- mean(x)

Yeah, thanks :-)  I was looking for a general way to fit a
distribution.  Should've made that clear.  I'm surprised that nobody
is complaining because I called lambda rho!