You're not giving people much to work with. I googled the error, and it seems to come from the call to optim and has likely to do with bad starting parameters.
That said, the documentation of fitdistr doesn't suggest it even supports "dbeta", there is only a "beta" mentioned. On 22.01.2013, at 17:07, Adelabu Ahmmed wrote: > Good-day Sir, > > I am R.Language users but am try to estimate parameter of beta distribution > particular dataset but give this error, which is not clear to me: (Initial > value in "vmmin" is not finite) > beta.fit <- fitdistr(data,densfun=dbeta,shape1=value , shape2=value) > kindly assist. > expecting your reply: > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
