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by Carlo
Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:16 am
Forum: Help With Programming
Topic: fitting Beta Distribution to data
Replies: 3
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Re: fitting Beta Distribution to data

Thanks Tom, It works! But then, when I have to recover the median and the interquartile range of the estimated distribution, I have to loop over thousands of values like: dec vec A1(1000000) B1(1000000) B22(1000000) do i=1,1000000 com A1(i) = %betainc((i*0.00001-left)/(right-left),%beta(1),%beta(2))...
by Carlo
Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:58 am
Forum: Help With Programming
Topic: fitting Beta Distribution to data
Replies: 3
Views: 7344

fitting Beta Distribution to data

Dear all, I’m trying to fit a unimodal generalized Beta distribution to some data as in: Engelberg J., Manski C.F. and Williams J. (2009) Comparing the Point Predictions and Subjective Probability Distributions of Professional Forecasters, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, vol. 27, page...