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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Automatic fit of distribution |
| Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:47:11 +0200 |
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Arne Bremermann wrote: > My task is to find the best fit distribution of different data sets. Is > stata able to do automatic distribution fitting? No, and that is a good thing. You will need to choose the distribution you want to fit, and than there are many programs in Stata that can help you find the best fitting parameters of that distribution. The choice of distribution will always have to be made (and justified) by the researcher. This is a responsibility that can not be delegated to some automagic process (typo intentional). So, which distribution do you want to fit? -- Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/