> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils Aschenbruck
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [R] Erlang distribution
>
>
> Hello,
>
> is there a packet that supports the Erlang distribution?
>
> I want to use this distribution for tests against empirical data. Thus, is
> there a packet that also supports "fitdistr" (Maximum-likelihood fitting)
> for this distribution?
>
[Dietrich Trenkler] Hi Nils,
you do not need a special package because the Erlang is a special
gamma distribution.
For instance
"derlang" <- function(x, k, l = 1) {
f <- dgamma(x, k, l)
f
}
delivers the density of the Erlang(k,1) distribution.
HTH
D. Trenkler
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