Help! I was surfing the net looking for documentation on the relationship between the power exponential family distribution and the internal correlation of sets of exponential data, when I ran into one of your 'R' pages. I'm hoping to develop a radio listening pattern model based on a generalized gamma distribution, beginning with raw Weibull listening durations. This package, 'R', sounds invaluable, but I cannot seem to locate directions on how to get it! Please help. Also, is there documentation across the rich spread of distributions offered that suggest when one distribution may be preferred over another? For instance, I find plentiful references in academic texts to normal-gamma distributions (sets of normal distributions, themselves distributed such that their precisions (inverted variances) are gamma distributed.) These have nice properties in Bayesian conjugate families, but I've never heard of any situation where such a distribution is applicable? So, I'd love to have this 'R' with some quickie manual of helpful application hints -- caveat emptor, I know, but I'd still like some idea of how these may come into play in the real world. Thanks for whatever you can tell me. I'm very excited about the utility this package may have for my media research work! Sincerely, Mike McCoy (mike.mccoy at arbitron.com) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._