Hello! I am new to R (before used python exclusively and would actually call the R solution for this issue inside a python notebook, hope that doesn’t disqualify me right of the batch).
Right now I am looking for a piece of software to fit a 1D data sample to a mixture of t-distributions. I searched quite a while already and it seems to be that this is a somehwat obscure endeavor as most search results turn up for mixture of gaussians (what I am not interested here). The most promising candidates so far are the "AdMit" and "MitSEM" R packages. However I do not know R and find the description of these packages rather comlple and it seems their core objective is not the fitting of mixtures of t’s but instead use this as a step to accomplish something else. This is in a nutshell what I want the software to accomplish: Fitting a mixture of t-distributions to some data and estimate the "location" "scale" and "degrees of freedom" for each. I hope someone can point me to a simple package, I can’t believe that this is such an obscure use case. Thanks! ______________________________________________ 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.
