Re: [R] Fit continuous distribution to truncated empirical values

Hello David, thanks for your answer. I have done as you told me, however the fit is very poor, much worse than that obtained from using the whole dataset (without upper bound). Any idea? Thanks, Michele On Nov 4, 2011, at 8:56 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Nov 3, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Michele

Re: [R] Fit continuous distribution to truncated empirical values

are general, as you pointed out, while my question is rather specific. Cheers, Michele On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Nov 14, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Michele Mazzucco wrote: Hello David, thanks for your answer. I have done as you told me, however the fit is very poor, much

Re: [R] Fit continuous distribution to truncated empirical values

: A non-helpful reply on a language issue. Truncated data are quite different than censored data and require different methodologies to analyze. You -- and many others in their postings -- have appeared to confuse the two here. -- Bert On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Michele Mazzucco

[R] Fit continuous distribution to truncated empirical values

Hi all, I am trying to fit a distribution to some data about survival times. I am interested only in a specific interval, e.g., while the data lies in the interval (0,, 600), I want the best for the interval (0,..., 24). I have tried both fitdistr (MASS package) and fitdist (from the