[R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

[Lathouri, Maria]

Actually I have already done a search on that but it was not much of a help. That is why I posted it in the r-help in case it was much more helpful. 

Thank you.

Kind regards
Maria

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From: David Winsemius [dwinsemius at comcast.net]
Sent: 15 March 2011 16:19
To: Lathouri, Maria
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and
> then to fit a distribution to that, probably a weibull or lognormal.
>
> I have plotted the ecdf as
>> plot(ecdf(x))
>
> but I haven't managed to fit the distribution. I have as well
> attached the data.

Try a search on one of the R search sites with:

"Fitting distributions with R"  # use the quotes


>
> I would appreciate if you could help me on that.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards
> Maria
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