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@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? > > > > ---JRG > > > > > 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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.