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Hello, I'm trying to read data in from a file using scan(). The last field is a character string that contains blanks. I had read it in in S-Plus using this code: ifile <- list(entry=0,measure=0,st=0,count=0,score=0, error=0,inmsq=0,instd=0,outms=0,outstd=0,displc=0,ptbis=0,a=0, r="",name="") if.widths <- c(1, 5, 8, 3, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 2, 2, 85) d1 <- scan(file=fd,ifile,flush=T,skip=0,widths=if.widths) The name variable is a character string that contains blanks, is of varying length (maximum len...

Hi , I am trying to get some estimator based on lognormal distribution when we have left,interval, and right censored data. Since, there is now avalible pakage in R can help me in this, I had to write my own code using Newton Raphson method which requires first and second derivative of log likelihood but my problem after runing the code is the estimators were too high. with this email ,I provide