[R] Weibull Likelihod function.

rkevinburton at charter.net rkevinburton at charter.net
Wed Aug 6 15:48:41 CEST 2008


Is there a likelihod function for the Weibull distribution in 'R'? I found the following reference:

http://www.weibull.com/LifeDataWeb/weibull_log_likelihood_functions_and_their_partials.htm

But I had a hard time understanding the parameters required Particularly 'number of groups of times-to-failure data points", "number of groups of suspension data points", and "number of interval failure data groups".

Maybe if there is a likelihood function within 'R' the documentation will be a little better and contain some examples.

I would like the likelihood function for some Bayesian inference and the Weibull distribution seems to closely resemble my prior data distribution.

Thank you.

Kevin



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