pikepar {mixdist}

Starting Values of Parameters for the Pike Data

Description

Starting values of parameters for fitting a mixture distribution to the data set pike65.

The pikepar data frame has 5 rows and 3 columns.

Usage

data(pikepar)

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

Macdonald, P.D.M. and T.J. Pitcher (1979). Age-groups from size-frequency data: a versatile and efficient method of analysing distribution mixtures. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 36, 987-1001.

References

Macdonald, P.D.M. (1987). Analysis of length-frequency distributions. In R.C. Summerfelt and G.E. Hall [editors], Age and Growth of Fish, Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa. pp 371-384.

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

Examples

data(pikepar)