[R] help error: In dweibull(x, shape, scale, log) : NaNs produzidos

peter dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 17:43:07 CET 2012


On Feb 21, 2012, at 16:36 , David Winsemius wrote:

> It suggests you managed to send negative or infinite numbers to dweibull, a distribution which only supports values when given positive, finite numbers. Look at your data more closely.

Zeros are a common cause, too. For a < 1 (the shape parameter), the Weibull density has a singularity at zero, and fitdistr() is not tolerant of observations rounded to zero in such cases.

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