Uses Newton-Raphson to estimate the parameters of the Gamma distribution.

Usage

mlgamma(x, na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

a (non-empty) numeric vector of data values.

na.rm

logical. Should missing values be removed?

...

rel.tol is the relative accuracy requested, defaults to .Machine\$double.eps^0.25. iterlim is a positive integer specifying the maximum number of iterations to be performed before the program is terminated (defaults to 100).

Value

mlgamma returns an object of classunivariateML. This is a named numeric vector with maximum likelihood estimates for shape and rate and the following attributes:

model

The name of the model.

density

The density associated with the estimates.

logLik

The loglikelihood at the maximum.

support

The support of the density.

n

The number of observations.

call

The call as captured my match.call

Details

For the density function of the Gamma distribution see GammaDist.

References

Choi, S. C, and R. Wette. "Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the gamma distribution and their bias." Technometrics 11.4 (1969): 683-690.

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1, Chapter 17. Wiley, New York.

mlgamma(precip)