R help - Sep 2010 - dirichlet models

Does anyone know of a package (or workaround) for fitting a dirichlet
distribution by maximum likelihood?

(I'm looking for something like this:
http://repec.org/bocode/d/dirifit.html,
that allows for both dependent variables summing to 1 & predictive variables
of any sort.)

Don


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On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Donald Braman wrote:
> Does anyone know of a package (or workaround) for fitting a dirichlet
> distribution by maximum likelihood?
Searching:

RSiteSearch("fitting dirichlet distribution maximum likelihood")

(Rapidly) produces this candidate:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/VGAM/html/dirichlet.html
>
> (I'm looking for something like this:
http://repec.org/bocode/d/dirifit.html
> ,
> that allows for both dependent variables summing to 1 & predictive  
> variables
> of any sort.)
>
> Don
>
>
> -- 
> Donald Braman
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