StableEstim

2.4

Estimate the Four Parameters of Stable Laws using Different Methods

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Overview

About

Maintained by Georgi N. BoshnakovFirst published 2014-01-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Estimate the four parameters of stable laws using maximum likelihood method, generalised method of moments with finite and continuum number of points, iterative Koutrouvelis regression and Kogon-McCulloch method. The asymptotic properties of the estimators (covariance matrix, confidence intervals) are also provided.

Install

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

install.packages("StableEstim", 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("GeoBosh/StableEstim")

Development version from GeoBosh/StableEstim. 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-stableestim

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-StableEstim

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

Health

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Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Repository

GitHub ↗ geobosh/stableestim

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (9)

statsutilsgraphicsnumDeriv fBasicsMASSmethodsstabledist Rdpack

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none

Suggests (2)

testthat xtable

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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TempStable deforestable

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Author, Maintainer

Tarak Kharrat

Author

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Boshnakov

no longer listed · 2.2 to 2.4

Package Timeline

6 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 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2016-05-02
check problems were not corrected despite reminders

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-22
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 90 KB
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