RE: st: ksmirnov

["Guessab Houda" <houda.guessab@gre.generali.com>]

Oh i was thing about the methodology of moments for example to estimate degrees of freedom from the kurtosis...

Houda GUESSAB



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Subject: Re: st: ksmirnov

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Guessab Houda wrote:
> That will help me so much...i also need to ask another question. Do you know if we can estimate a student distribution in stata? Or do we have to use Maximum likelihood estimation to do that?

Nick just gave you two ways of estimating the parameters for a
t-distribution: one based on the mean and the standard deviation and
one based on the quartiles.

-- Maarten

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