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2003 Oct 20
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Fitting a Weibull/NaNs
I'm trying to fit a Weibull distribution to some data via maximum likelihood estimation. I'm following the procedure described by Doug Bates in his "Using Open Source Software to Teach Mathematical Statistics" but I keep getting warnings about NaNs being converted to maximum positive value: > llfunc <- function (x) { -sum(dweibull(AM,shape=x[1],scale=x[2], log=TRUE))} >