normobj: Normal Distribution - Objective Function

In jeksterslabds/jeksterslabRdist: Jekster's Lab Distribution Utilities

Description

Objective function to minimize/maximize to estimate parameters of the normal distribution. See norm2ll().

Usage

normobj(theta, x, neg = TRUE)

Arguments

theta	Vector of parameters θ of the normal distribution (theta[1] = mu (μ) and theta[2] = sigma (σ)).
x	Numeric vector. Values of the random variable X.
neg	Logical. If TRUE, returns, negative log-likelihood.

Author(s)

Ivan Jacob Agaloos Pesigan

References

Wikipedia: Normal Distribution

Wikipedia: IID

Wikipedia: Likelihood Function

See Also

Other normal likelihood functions: norm2ll(), normL(), normll(), normpdf()

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