foldedt.mle: MLE of the folded t distribution

In foldedt: The Folded t Family of Distributions

MLE of the folded t distribution

Description

MLE of the folded t distribution.

Usage

foldedt.mle(x)

Arguments

x	A numerical vector with positive real numbers.

Value

A list including:

param	The estimated location and scatter parameters, and the degrees of freedom of the folded t distribution.
loglik	The value of the maximised log-likelihood.

Author(s)

Michail Tsagris.

R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris [e-mail].

References

Psarakis and Panaretos (1990). The folded t distribution. Communications in Statistics–Theory and Methods, 19(7): 2717–2734.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folded-t_and_half-t_distributions

See Also

halft.mle, halft1.mle, dfoldedt

Examples

x <- abs( rt(1000, 5, 2) )
foldedt.mle(x)

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