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[Pascal Oettli]

Hello,

The value for 'start' is not correct. According to the help for
"fitdistr", 'start' should contain the paramaters used by the random
function (?rchisq)

Hope this helps,
Pascal

On 20 November 2013 09:29, Jim Silverton <jim.silverton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I generated some random data using R and then trying to see if it came from
> the same distribution but the erros keep piling.  Can anyone help?
>
>
>
> y=rchisq(100000,1)
> mean(y)
> var(y)
> library(MASS)
> fitdistr(y, "chi-squared", start = list(4), method = "Brent", lower=0.9,
> upper=3)
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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Pascal Oettli
Project Scientist
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan