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2009 Dec 06
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optim with constraints
Hi, dear R users
I am a newbie in R and I wantto use the method of meximum likelihood
to fit a Weibull distribution to my survival data. I use "optim" as
follows:
optim(c(1, 0.25),weibull.like,mydata=mydata,method="L-BFGS-B",hessian
= TRUE)
My question is: how do I setup the constraints so that the two
parametrs of Weibull to be pisotive? Or should I use other function