Re: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R

[Spencer Graves]

     If, however, you are more interested in general methods for 
maximizing a likelihood function, I suggest you look at "optim", work 
the examples on the help page, etc. 

     hope this helps.  spencer graves

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

Use

 

x=rnorm(100, mean=3, sd=1)
library(MASS)
fitdistr(x, "normal")
   

     mean          sd    
 2.93666631   0.99673982 
(0.09967398) (0.07048015)

Hope this helps,

Shrieb

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