EstimationTools

4.3.1

Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Probability Functions from Data Sets

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jaime MosqueraFirst published 2019-06-067 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Total Time on Test plot and routines for parameter estimation of any lifetime distribution implemented in R via maximum likelihood (ML) given a data set. It is implemented thinking on parametric survival analysis, but it feasible to use in parameter estimation of probability density or mass functions in any field. The main routines 'maxlogL' and 'maxlogLreg' are wrapper functions specifically developed for ML estimation. There are included optimization procedures such as 'nlminb' and 'optim' from base package, and 'DEoptim' Mullen (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i06. Standard errors are estimated with 'numDeriv' Gilbert (2011) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=numDeriv or the option 'Hessian = TRUE' of 'optim' function.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EstimationTools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("Jaimemosg/EstimationTools")

Development version from Jaimemosg/EstimationTools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-estimationtools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EstimationTools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Dependencies

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23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.5.0survival

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DEoptim BBmisc GA RdpackutilsstatsnumDerivbootautoimagegraphicsstringr gaussquad car

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Jaime Mosquera

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Freddy Hernandez

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Jaime Mosquera

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Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-06
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 437 KB
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