fitdistrplus: An R Package for Fitting Distributions

The package fitdistrplus provides functions for fitting univariate distributions to different types of data (continuous censored or non-censored data and discrete data) and allowing different estimation methods (maximum likelihood, moment matching, quantile matching and maximum goodness-of-fit estimation). Outputs of fitdist and fitdistcens functions are S3 objects, for which specific methods are provided, including summary, plot and quantile. This package also provides various functions to compare the fit of several distributions to the same data set and can handle to bootstrap parameter estimates. Detailed examples are given in food risk assessment, ecotoxicology and insurance contexts.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of Statistical Software

• Publication date

  2015-03-20

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.18637/JSS.V064.I04
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