Description Usage Arguments Details Value References See Also
It is an auxiliar function for fitting a Pareto distribution as a particular case of a Pareto Positive Stable distribution, allowing the scale parameter to be held fixed if desired.
1 | pareto.fit(x, estim.method = "MLE", sigma = NULL, start, ...)
|
x |
The vector of observations. |
estim.method |
The estimation method, "MLE" or "OLS" |
sigma |
The value of the scale parameter, if it is known; if the value is |
start |
Unused argument from |
... |
Other arguments. |
This function is called by PPS.fit()
when Pareto
argument is TRUE
.
A PPSfit
Object.
Sarabia, J.M and Prieto, F. (2009). The Pareto-positive stable distribution: A new descriptive model for city size data, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388(19), 4179-4191.
PPS.fit
, coef.PPSfit
, print.PPSfit
, plot.PPSfit
, GoF
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