similar to: weibull fitdistr problem: optimization failed

GUYS, I NEED HELP WITH ERROR: library(MASS) > dados<-read.table("mediaRGinverno.txt",header=FALSE) > vento50<-fitdistr(dados[[1]],densfun="weibull") Erro em fitdistr(dados[[1]], densfun = "weibull") : Weibull values must be > 0 WHY RETURN THIS ERROR? WHAT CAN I DO? BEST REGARDS [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am trying to extract the shape and scale parameters of a wind speed distribution for different sites. I can do this in a clunky way, but I was hoping to find a way using data.table or plyr. However, when I try I am met with the following: set.seed(144) weib.dist<-rweibull(10000,shape=3,scale=8) weib.test<-data.table(cbind(1:10,weib.dist))

Dear All; I tried to use fitdistr() in the MASS library to fit a mixture distribution of the 3-parameter Weibull, but the optimization failed. Looking at the source code, it seems to indicate the error occurs at if (res$convergence > 0) stop("optimization failed"). The procedures I tested are as following: >w3den <- function(x, a,b,c)

Dear R users, This is a basic question. I want to fit a Weibull distribution. fitdistr(data, "weibull") works and it is a maximum likelihood fitting. Is it a good method ? Or is it better to write a function for the log-likelihood and the gradient and to use a numerical routine ? Fitdistr works for uncensored data, but what can I use for censored (and uncensored) data ? Thank you

Dear All, I have two questions regarding distribution fitting. I have several datasets, all left-truncated at x=1, that I am attempting to fit distributions to (lognormal, weibull and exponential). I had been using fitdistr in the MASS package as follows: fitdistr<-(x,"weibull") However, this does not take into consideration the truncation at x=1. I read another posting in this

Hello everyone, This is Kangmin. I am trying to produce shape and scale of my wind data. My data is based on wind speed frequency with 1km/hr increment. data is described below. Windspeed (km/h) Frequency 1 351 2 147 3 317 4 378 5 527 6 667 7 865 8 970 9 987 10 907 11 905 12 642 13 1000 14 983 15 847 16 842 17 757 18 698 19 632 20 626 21 599 22 529 23 325 24 391

Hi, I want to estimate parameters of weibull distribution. For this, I am using fitdistr() function in MASS package.But when I give fitdistr(c,"weibull") I get a Error as follows:- Error in optim(x = c(4L, 41L, 20L, 6L, 12L, 6L, 7L, 13L, 2L, 8L, 22L, : non-finite value supplied by optim Any help or suggestions are most welcomed -- View this message in context:

Hello, I have detailed (with pictures and whatnot) my question on my weblog at http://www.cs-ed.org/blogs/mjadud/archives/2005/05/a_question_abou.html The short version of the question is this: When I ask 'fitdistr' to try and fit my distribution as a "weibull" distribution, it comes up with some rather wacky parameters. If I take the same distribution, and do something

Dear R-users I would like to fit weibull parameters using "Method of moments" in order to provide the inital values of the parameter to de function 'fitdistr' . I don`t have much experience with maths and I don't know how to do it. Can anyone please put me in the rigth direction? Borja [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, I am trying to fit a distribution to some data about survival times. I am interested only in a specific interval, e.g., while the data lies in the interval (0,...., 600), I want the best for the interval (0,..., 24). I have tried both fitdistr (MASS package) and fitdist (from the fitdistrplus package), but I could not get them working, e.g. fitdistr(left, "weibull", upper=24)

Hi R lovers! I'd like to know how to use the parameter 'start' in the function fitdistr() obviously I have to provide the initial value of the parameter to optimize except in the case of a certain set of given distribution Indeed according to the help file for fitdistr " For the following named distributions, reasonable starting values will be computed if `start'

Dear R gurus, I have the following code, but I still not know how to estimate and extract confidence intervals (95%CI) from resampling. Thanks! ~Adriana #data penta<-c(770,729,640,486,450,410,400,340,306,283,278,260,253,242,240,229,201,198,190,186,180,170,168,151,150,148,147,125,117,110,107,104,85,83,80,74,70,66,54,46,45,43,40,38,10) x<-log(penta+1) plot(ecdf(x),

Guys, I'm having an error when I use the command: library(MASS)> dados<-read.table("inverno.txt",header=FALSE)> vento50<-fitdistr(dados[[1]],densfun="weibull")Mensagens de aviso perdidas:1: In dweibull(x, shape, scale, log) : NaNs produzidos2: In dweibull(x, shape, scale, log) : NaNs produzidos3: In dweibull(x, shape, scale, log) : NaNs produzidos4: In

Dear all, I get the following error message. And I cannot quite work out what is wrong. I think the optim gets infinite values. Certainly my data do not have any infinite values. How can I solve this? fitdistr(A1, "weibull") Error in optim(start, mylogfn, x = x, hessian = TRUE, ...) : non-finite value supplied by optim I am using R version 1.9.1 on RedHat Linux, Kernel 2.6.8.

Hi,Dear all R experts, As far as I know, fitdistr() is only to estimate the parameters in univariate distributions. I have a set of data (x,y) and I assume it follows a bivariate weibull distribution. Could someone tell me a function in R that is suitable for parameter estimation in multivariate cases? Thanks in advance! Cheers, YAN

Dear Knowledgeable R Community Members, Please excuse my ignorance, I apologize in advance if this is an easy question, but I am a bit stumped and could use a little guidance. I have a finite mixture modeling problem -- for example, a 2-component Weibull mixture -- where the components have a large overlap, and I am trying to adapt the "mclust" package which concern to normal

Hello, is there a quick way of estimating Weibull parameters for some data points that are assumed to be Weibull-distributed? I guess I'm just too lazy to set up a Maximum-Likelihood estimation... ...but maybe there is a simpler way? Thanks for any hint (and yes, I've read help(Weibull) ;) Kaspar Pflugshaupt -- Kaspar Pflugshaupt Geobotanical Institute ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Hi, why my script iss always generating the same graph?when I change the parameters and the name of text file? library(MASS) dados<-read.table("inverno.txt",header=FALSE) vento50<-fitdistr(dados[[1]],densfun="weibull") png(filename="invernoRG.png",width=800,height=600) hist(dados[[1]], seq(0, 18, 0.5), prob=TRUE, xlab="Velocidade

Dear R Users, I am trying to obtain a best-fit analytic distribution for a dataset with 11535459 entries. The data range in value from 1 to 300000000. I use: fitdistr(data, "gamma") to obtain mle's for the parameters. I get the following error: Error in optim(start, mylogfn, x = x, hessian = TRUE, ...) : non-finite finite-difference value [1] And the following warnings:

Hi all I try to make a weibull survival analysis on R. I know make this on GLIM, and now I try to make the GLIM exercice GLEX8 on R to learning and compare the test. The variables are: time censor group bodymass In GLIM I make: $calc %s=1 $ to fit weibull rather than exponential $input %pcl weibull $ $macro model group*bodymass $endmac$ $use weibull t w %s $ Then, GLIM estimate an alpha for the