pearsonpar {mixdist}

Starting Values of Parameters for the Pearson's Data

Description

Starting values of parameters for fitting a mixture distribution to the data set pearson.

The pearsonpar data frame has 2 rows and 3 columns.

Usage

data(pearsonpar)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

pi

the starting values for proportions.

mu

the starting values for means.

sigma

the starting values for standard deviations.

Source

Pearson, K. (1894). Contributions to the mathematical theory of evolution. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A 185, 71-110.

References

http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/peter/mix/demex/excrabs.html

Examples

data(pearsonpar)