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[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Debbie Zhang wrote:
> Based on a set of binomial sample data, how would you utilize the "nlm" 
> function in R to estimate the true proportion of the population?
>

I can't see why anyone would want to use nlm() for this.  The sample 
proportion is the MLE, and binom.test() gives an exact confidence 
interval.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle