[R] Error in fitdist- mle failed to estimate parameters

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:10 PM, vinod1 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying fit certain data into Beta distribution. I get the error  
> saying
> "Error in fitdist(discrete_random_variable_c, "beta", start = NULL,  
> fix.arg
> = NULL) :   the function mle failed to estimate the parameters,    
> with the
> error code 100"
>
> Below is the sorted data that I am trying to fit. Where am I going  
> wrong.

There is an exclamation point in that "data".

>
> Thanks a lot for any help.
>
> Vinod
>
> 2.05495e-05,3.68772e-05,4.21994e-05,4.38481e-05,5.55001e-05,5.74267e-0 
> 5,6.27489e-05,6.43976e-05,6.64938e-05,7.40247e-05,7.60495e-05,7.90767e-05,8.07253e-05,8.60475e-05,8.70433e-05,9.23773e-05,9.45742e-05,9.76995e-05,9.93482e-5,9.96262e-05,0.000101275,0.000103371,0.000106597,0.000108693,0.000110342,0.000110902,0.000112927,0.000116224,0.000118249,0.000119346,0.000119898,0.000120773,0.000121994,0.000122925,0.000123921,0.000131451,0.000134577,0.000136225,0.000136774,0.000138422,0.000139895,0.000140519,0.000141322,0.000142543,0.000150074,0.00015475,0.000155126,0.000156223,0.000156775,0.00015765,0.000161545,0.000163194,0.000164621,0.000165842,0.00016612,0.000166402,0.000167769,0.000173373,0.000173651,0.000174846,0.000176273,0.000177396,0.0001782,0.000179421,0.000183522,0.000183744,0.000186952,0.000187267,0.000192274,0.000193371,0.000197945,0.000202719,0.000203267,0.000207816,0.00021025,0.00021315,0.00021392,0.000218694,0.00022162,0.000230248,0.0002308,0.000231675,0.000240145,0.000!
> 244693,0.000252224,0.000266343,0.000308765,0.000422837,0.000429537,0.000443386
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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