fit a BinomialDistribution to exptl data?
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- Subject: [mg80415] fit a BinomialDistribution to exptl data?
- From: Gordon Robertson <agrobertson at telus.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:38:01 -0400 (EDT)
Given a list of data values, or a list of x-y data points for plotting the data as an empirical distribution function, how can I fit a BinomialDistribution to the data? The help documentation for FindFit shows examples in which the user indicates which function should be fit (e.g. FindFit[data, a x Log[b + c x], {a, b, c}, x]), and I've been unable to find an example in which a statistical distribution is being fit to data. Mathematica complains when I try the following with an xy list of data that specified an EDF: FindFit [xyvals, CDF[BinomialDistribution[n, pp], k], {n, pp}, k]. G -- Gordon Robertson Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre Vancouver BC Canada
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