On Feb 21, 2012, at 16:36 , David Winsemius wrote:

> It suggests you managed to send negative or infinite numbers to dweibull, a 
> distribution which only supports values when given positive, finite numbers. 
> Look at your data more closely.

Zeros are a common cause, too. For a < 1 (the shape parameter), the Weibull 
density has a singularity at zero, and fitdistr() is not tolerant of 
observations rounded to zero in such cases.

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Peter Dalgaard, Professor
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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