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Re: st: Automatic fit of distribution
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Automatic fit of distribution
Date
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:47:11 +0200
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Arne Bremermann wrote:
> My task is to find the best fit distribution of different data sets. Is
> stata able to do automatic distribution fitting?
No, and that is a good thing. You will need to choose the distribution
you want to fit, and than there are many programs in Stata that can
help you find the best fitting parameters of that distribution. The
choice of distribution will always have to be made (and justified) by
the researcher. This is a responsibility that can not be delegated to
some automagic process (typo intentional).
So, which distribution do you want to fit?
-- Maarten
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