[R] Error code 100 when using the function “fitdist” from the fitdistrplus package

Nelly Reduan
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:56:25 -0000

Hello,


Thanks David for your answer. I tested different parameters for Beta and Weibull
distributions based on forums but I didn't find solutions.


Thank you very much for your time.

Have a nice day

Nell

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De : David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
Envoy? : jeudi 4 ao?t 2016 08:45:01
? : Nelly Reduan
Cc : r-help at r-project.org
Objet : Re: [R] Error code 100 when using the function ?fitdist? from the
fitdistrplus package


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> Hello,
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> I?m trying to fit distributions to data. To do this, I used the function
?fitdist? from the fitdistrplus package and I drew a Cullen and Frey graph
(attached Figure 1). From this graph, I am attempting to fit different
distributions: Beta, Gamma and Weibull. The function ?fitdist? works with Gamma
distribution from this code:
>
> Fit.dist <- fitdist(x[x!=0], distr="gamma",
method="mle",lower=c(0, 0),start=list(scale=1,shape=1))
>
> However, with Beta and Weibull distributions, I obtain this error message:
>
>  the function mle failed to estimate the parameters,
>
>                with the error code 100

A bit of searching produces this:

http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help+fitdistrplus+error+code+100#query:list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help%20fitdistrplus%20error%20code%20100+page:1+mid:esp2okcorrdichtj+state:results



--
David.
>
>
>
> Here is my code to fit Beta and Weibull distributions:
>
> fit.dist <- fitdist(x_scaled, distr="beta", method =
"mle")
>
> fit.dist <- fitdist(x, distr="weibull",
method="mle", lower=c(0, 0))
>
> For the Beta distribution, I transformed the variable to have values
between 0 and 1 as follows:
>
> x_scaled  <- (x-min(x))/max(x)
>
> Here are some information about data (summary() and attached Figure 2)
>
>> summary(x)
>
>   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>
>    0.0    90.4   244.8   437.4   549.4  4904.0
>
> How can I fit Gamma and Weibull distributions to my data without having the
error message ?
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>
> Nell
>
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