Re: [R] lmom package - Resending the email

2014-12-04 Thread peter dalgaard
lmom is based on L-moments, which are different from ordinary moments, except for the 1st one. It would be truly miraculous if it gave the same result as the ordinary method of moments or maximum likelihood. Estimates of any distributional parameter requires that the model actually fits the

Re: [R] lmom package - Resending the email

2014-12-04 Thread Katherine Gobin
...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [R] lmom package - Resending the email To: Simon Zehnder szehn...@uni-bonn.de r-help@r-project.org Date: Thursday, 4 December, 2014, 2:04 PM lmom is based on L-moments, which are different from ordinary moments, except for the 1st one. It would be truly miraculous

[R] lmom package - Resending the email

2014-12-03 Thread Katherine Gobin via R-help
Dear R forum I sincerely apologize as my earlier mail with the captioned subject, since all the values got mixed up and the email is not readable. I am trying to write it again.  My problem is I have a set of data and I am trying to fit some distributions to it. As a part of this exercise, I

Re: [R] lmom package - Resending the email

2014-12-03 Thread Simon Zehnder
Katherine, for a deeper understanding of differing values it makes sense to provide the list at least with an online description of the corresponding functions used in Minitab and SPSS… Best Simon On 03 Dec 2014, at 10:45, Katherine Gobin via R-help r-help@r-project.org wrote: Dear R forum