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estimate_pars

Estimates the distributions using mle.

Description

estimate_pars estimates the distribution's parameters using their maximum likelihood estimator. This estimate is conditional on the current xmin value.

Usage

estimate_pars(m, pars = NULL)

Arguments

`m`	A reference class object that contains the data.
`pars`	default `NULL`. A vector or matrix (number of columns equal to the number of parameters) of parameters used to #' optimise over. Otherwise, for each value of `xmin`, the mle will be used, i.e. `estimate_pars(m)`. For small samples, the mle may be biased.

Value

returns list.

Examples

data(moby_sample)
m = displ$new(moby_sample)
estimate_xmin(m)
m$setXmin(7)
estimate_pars(m)

poweRlaw

Analysis of Heavy Tailed Distributions

v0.70.6

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Colin Gillespie [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1787-0275>)

Initial release