[R] Function for Distribution Fitting

[Bert Gunter]

Of course it's an infinite set!

The OP should look here:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Distributions.html

-- Bert

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:01 AM JRG via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> "all possible probability distributions"
>
> I doubt that is a finite set.  To select "a bunch of them" would seem to
> imply a reduction of that set based on what's
> possible/promising/pertinent in your specific problem.  IMHO, what's the
> "most suitable distribution" tends to depend partly on knowledge of the
> subject matter of your problem.
>
> Doesn't that put you back in your present situation?
>
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>
> ---JRG
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> On 10/26/22 09:41, Paul Bernal wrote:
> > Dear friends from the R community,
> >
> > Hope you are all doing great. So far, whenever I need to perform
> > distribution fitting on a particular dataset, I make use of R package
> > fitdistrplus.
> >
> > However, distribution fitting using the fitdist() function from
> > fitdistrplus is rather manual (you need to specify which probability
> > distribution you are trying to fit), and it would be more convenient if the
> > function tested all possible probability distributions (or a bunch of them)
> > and then estimates the parameters and suggests the most suitable
> > distribution.
> >
> > Is there any package besides fitdistrplus that does allow automatic
> > distribution fitting?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Paul
> >
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