similar to: Error while using fitdistr() function or goodfit() function

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Hello, Sample code: library("vcd") dummy <- rnbinom(200, size=1.5, prob=0.8) gf <- goodfit(dummy, type="nbinomial", method="MinChisq") plot(gf) I would like to: 1. add a lgened stating the bars show the actual counts and the red dots - the fit. 2. show the goodness-of-fit values calculated somewhere on an empty white space ob the plot. But... the legend

Dear All, I run the goodness of fit test using goodfit() in vcd package. The result is as follow: Goodness-of-fit test for poisson distribution X^2 df P(> X^2) Pearson 1.053348 2 0.5905661 Warning message: In summary.goodfit(gf) : Chi-squared approximation may be incorrect I want to save the the test statistics(X^2), df, and p-value. How can I save the result.

Hi All, I have a dataset consisting of abundance counts of a fish and I want to test if my data are poisson in distribution or normal. My first question is whether it is more appropriate to model my data according to a poisson distribution (if my test says it conforms) or use transformed data to normalise the data distribution? I have been using the vcd package gf<-goodfit(Y,type=

I have troubles understanding how goodfit() function in the vcd package computes the Pearson coefficient. Can anybody provide more information on the computation? In particular, for HorseKicks data in vcd package, goodfit() yields > oo <- goodfit(HorseKicks,type="poisson",method="MinChisq") > summary(oo) Goodness-of-fit test for poisson distribution

Hey, Does anyone know if there is a way to get back from goodfit what it estimated the parameters to be? I used the code fit<-goodfit(round(data$PLX_NRX),type="nbinomial" and got a pretty good fit. I could not however duplicate this good fit with any parameter estimates that I had. Any ideas??? Thanks, Elizabeth Lawson ---------------------------------

This came up on r-help but indicates a bug. dnbinom(x,n,p) calls dbinom_raw(n-1,...) which returns 0 for n<1. -thomas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 17:10:23 +0000 From: Yudi Pawitan <yudi@stat.ucc.ie> To: Mark Myatt <mark@myatt.demon.co.uk> Cc: R-Help <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Subject: Re: [R] Goodness of fit to Poisson / NegBinomial

Hello, I am a student and for project I need R. I have one problem regarding function goodfit(). Does goodfit() require frequency count of numbers or numbers themselves? For example suppose I have data say 150 readings.Do I need to use goodfit() directly on data or should I make suitable no of bins and then apply goodfit()? Aswad [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I am trying to fit distribution for data consisting of 421 readings.It is basically no of requests arrived per minute.It contains many 0 entries as no of requests.When i use fd<-fitdistr(V2,"gamma") I get following error: Error in optim(x = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, : initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite What should I do ? I need

Dear R-Help: As you can see, Prof. Friendly refers me to your site for an executable version of vcd. I don't mean to be obtuse, but 15 minutes spent exploring your site failed to locate a downloadable version of the vcd package to which he referred. I know plainly what this application can do. What I need to know is how to obtain the application itself. My thanks in advance for any

All, I have some data on parasites on apple leaves and want to do a goodness of fit test to a Poisson distribution. This seems to do it: mites <- c(rep(0,70), rep(1,38), rep(2,17), rep(3,10), rep(4,9), rep(5,3), rep(6,2), rep(7,1)) tab <- table(mites) NSU <- length(mites) N <-

Dear list, I ran into a strange behaviour of the pnbinom function - or maybe I just made a stupid mistake. First thing is that pnbinom seems to be very slow. The other - more interesting one - is that I get two different curves when I plot the estimated density and the density given by pnbinom. Shouldn't it be the same? This is only the case, I think, if I use the parameter size = 1. I

I'm trying to enter a frequency table manually so that I can run a goodness of fit test (I only have the frequencies, I don't have the raw data). So for example, let's say I want to re-create the HorseKicks table: library(vcd) data(HorseKicks) str(HorseKicks) 'table' int [1:5(1d)] 109 65 22 3 1 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 1 ..$ nDeaths: chr [1:5]

Dear colleague, I not sure this R code is correctly ? I would to show the number of Sample Size at Sample Size Axis that line draw from Power Axis (80%) from R code. How I show this and select the most appropriate of this power (.79955687 - 80983575). Thank for your help and answer. Best Regards, Nikom Thanomsieng, Email: nikom at kku.ac.th .... #Power analysis: Sample size for

Thanks Ben for verifying the issue. It is always reassuring to hear when others can reproduce the problem. I wrote a small patch that fixes the issue (https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/11): diff --git a/src/nmath/qnbinom.c b/src/nmath/qnbinom.c index b313ce56b2..d2e8d98759 100644 --- a/src/nmath/qnbinom.c +++ b/src/nmath/qnbinom.c @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ double qnbinom(double p, double size,

Dear all, I am analyzing counts of seabirds made from line transects at sea. I have been fitting Poisson and negative binomial distributions to the data using the goodfit function from the vcd library. I would also like to evaluate how well a quasi-poisson distribution fits the data. However, none of the potentially suitable functions I have identified (goodfit(vcd), fitdistr(MASS),

Dear R users, I was wondering from where I could get the C source code to compute pnbinom() and qnorm() ? (I would use R in batch mode but I find the startup time prohibitive, unless there is a way to speed it up) I searched the Web and it clearly is part of the R distribution, I just don't know how to extract them. Thanking you ! Markus Loecher Princeton, NJ [[alternative HTML version

I have seen several queries about parameterizing the negative binomial scale parameter. This is called the heterogeneous negative binomial. I have written a function called "nbinomial" which is in the msme package on CRAN. Type ?nbinomial to see the help file. The default model is a negative binomial for which the dispersion parameter is directly related to mu, which is how Stata,

Hello, I need to fit a generalized linear model with a Chi2 (6 ddl) as error distribution and with "log" as link function. I have looked in help(family) and maybe I could use Gamma(link="log") but I do not know if I can, and where I can define the shape and the scale arguments of the gamma distribution. Maybe there is another may to do that? Could someone explain me how can I

Dear R'ers, When I used S-plus i wrote a small program for a Mantel-Haenszel test for trend (I think it worked). Unfortunately I can't get it working in R. It appears as if my use of 'el' is the problem but I can't sort it out. Error in apply(array, c(, 2, 3), function(el) el * 1:s) : argument is missing, with no default Further down in the program I use 'el'