R help - Aug 2006 - help on fitting negative binomial distribution with MLE

Dear friends,
  Anybody knows how to  fit the negative binomial distribution with MLE
using R or other software? I can't find the solution, any suggestions or
help would be greatly appreciated.

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Kind Regards,
Zhi Jie,Zhang

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This is a special case of

MASS::fitdistr
MASS::glm.nb

and the first will be easiest for you.

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, zhijie zhang wrote:
> Dear friends,
>   Anybody knows how to  fit the negative binomial distribution with MLE
> using R or other software? I can't find the solution, any suggestions
or
> help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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