[R] outout clarification of fitdist {fitdistrplus} output

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Sat May 21 17:50:09 CEST 2011


Alexander Kapeller <mail <at> alexander-kapeller.de> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I like to fit data against a negative binominal distribution
> 
 [snip]

> I am wondering how to translate the size and the mu parameter into the usual
> number of successes (n) and the contiuous probability (p) . To me it is not
> clear what these mu and size parameter declares. 
> 

  See the help page for ?dnbinom, which gives the details of the
different parameterizations ...

   Ben Bolker



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