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MLE

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Various Univariate and Multivariate Distributions

v1.6 · Oct 20, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Several functions for maximum likelihood estimation of various univariate and multivariate distributions. The list includes more than 100 functions for univariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions that lie on the real line, the positive line, interval restricted, circular distributions. Further, multivariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions for compositional and directional data, etc. Some references include Johnson N. L., Kotz S. and Balakrishnan N. (1994). "Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1" <ISBN:978-0-471-58495-7>, Johnson, Norman L. Kemp, Adrianne W. Kotz, Samuel (2005). "Univariate Discrete Distributions". <ISBN:978-0-471-71580-1> and Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). "Directional Statistics". <ISBN:978-0-471-95333-3>.

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package dependencies

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Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘mvcauchy’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies BGFD bivpois CCd COMPoissonReg Compositional Directional geppe gp MN Rfast Rfast2 MLE

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new 1.6 Mar 9, 2026