[R] dirichlet models

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Donald Braman wrote:

> Does anyone know of a package (or workaround) for fitting a dirichlet
> distribution by maximum likelihood?

Searching:

RSiteSearch("fitting dirichlet distribution maximum likelihood")

(Rapidly) produces this candidate:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/VGAM/html/dirichlet.html

>
> (I'm looking for something like this: http://repec.org/bocode/d/dirifit.html 
> ,
> that allows for both dependent variables summing to 1 & predictive  
> variables
> of any sort.)
>
> Don
>
>
> -- 
> Donald Braman

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David Winsemius, MD
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