Re: [R] Function for Distribution Fitting

2022-10-26 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
-help Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:01 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Function for Distribution Fitting [External Email] "all possible probability distributions" I doubt that is a finite set. To select "a bunch of them" would seem to imply a reduction of tha

Re: [R] Function for Distribution Fitting

2022-10-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A Cullen & Frey graph (fitdistrplus::descdist) can be used to compare certain common distributions. On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:42 AM Paul Bernal wrote: > > Dear friends from the R community, > > Hope you are all doing great. So far, whenever I need to perform > distribution fitting on a particular

Re: [R] Function for Distribution Fitting

2022-10-26 Thread Bert Gunter
Of course it's an infinite set! The OP should look here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Distributions.html -- Bert On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:01 AM JRG via R-help wrote: > > "all possible probability distributions" > > I doubt that is a finite set. To select "a bunch of them" would seem t

Re: [R] Function for Distribution Fitting

2022-10-26 Thread JRG via R-help
"all possible probability distributions" I doubt that is a finite set. To select "a bunch of them" would seem to imply a reduction of that set based on what's possible/promising/pertinent in your specific problem. IMHO, what's the "most suitable distribution" tends to depend partly on knowledge

[R] Function for Distribution Fitting

2022-10-26 Thread Paul Bernal
Dear friends from the R community, Hope you are all doing great. So far, whenever I need to perform distribution fitting on a particular dataset, I make use of R package fitdistrplus. However, distribution fitting using the fitdist() function from fitdistrplus is rather manual (you need to specif