Re: [R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation Poisson distribution mle {stats4}

2012-07-05 Thread chamilka
Thank you very much Professor .Peter Dalgaard for your kind explanations.. This made my work easy.. I am struggling with this for more than 2 days and now I got the correct reply. Thank again. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Maximum-Likelihood-Estimation-Poisson-d

Re: [R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation Poisson distribution mle {stats4}

2012-07-05 Thread chamilka
Thank you S Ellison-2 for your reply. I will understand it with Prof.Peter Dalgaard's answer.. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Maximum-Likelihood-Estimation-Poisson-distribution-mle-stats4-tp4635464p4635484.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.c

Re: [R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation Poisson distribution mle {stats4}

2012-07-05 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:48 , chamilka wrote: > Hi everyone! > I am using the mle {stats4} to estimate the parameters of distributions by > MLE method. I have a problem with the examples they provided with the > mle{stats4} html files. Please check the example and my question below! > *Here is the m

Re: [R] Maximum Likelihood Estimation Poisson distribution mle {stats4}

2012-07-05 Thread S Ellison
> -Original Message- > > sample.mean<- sum(x*y)/sum(y) > > sample.mean > [1] 3.5433 > > *This is the contradiction!! * > Here I am getting the estimate as 3.5433(which is reasonable > as most of the values are clustered around 3), but mle code > gives the estimate 11.545(which may not be