R help - Mar 2006 - Maximum Likelihood Estimation

hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to do Maximum Likelihood Estimation in R?

Thanks in advance
Arun

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Arun Kumar Saha <arun.kumar.saha <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do Maximum Likelihood Estimation in R?
> 
  Unfortunately this question is ***way*** too vague for us
to answer adequately.  A short answer is that R provides general-purpose
minimization functions (optim, nlm, nlminb) that you can use to
minimize a negative log-likelihood function; the mle() function
in the stats4 package is a wrapper for this function.  You have
to define your own likelihood function:
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/documents/mle/mle.html
may be helpful.

   Ben Bolker