mlrayleigh: Rayleigh distribution maximum likelihood estimation

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References See Also Examples

View source: R/mlrayleigh.R

Description

Calculates the sigma parameter as the square root of half the empirical second moment.

Usage

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

Arguments

x

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

na.rm

logical. Should missing values be removed?

...

currently affects nothing.

Details

For the density function of the Rayleigh distribution see Rayleigh.

Value

mlrayleigh returns an object of class univariateML. This is a named numeric vector with maximum likelihood estimates for sigma 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

References

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1, Chapter 18. Wiley, New York.

See Also

Rayleigh for the Rayleigh density.

Examples

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Example output

Maximum likelihood estimates for the Rayleigh model 
sigma  
26.48  

univariateML documentation built on Jan. 25, 2022, 5:09 p.m.