 Dear lagreene,
See the second example in

require(MASS)
?fitdistr

HTH,

Jorge


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:15 PM, lagreene <lagreene101@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me how m and s are calculated for a t
> distribution?
>
> I thought m was the sample mean and s the standard deviation- but obviously
> I'm wrong as this doesn'y give the same answer.
>
> Thank you
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