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gedestp: Estimates the shape parameter of a standardised Generalised Error Distribution (GED)

Description

The estimation method is based on an index of curtosis, and the code is based the estimatep function from the R package by Angelo M. Mineo called normalp

Usage

gedestp(x, method = c("inverse", "direct"))

Arguments

x
numeric vector
method
"inverse" or "direct"

Value

  • numeric, an estimate of the shape parameter

References

Mineo, A.M. (1994): 'Un nuovo metodo di stima di p per una corretta valutazione dei parametri diintensita e di scala di una curva normale di ordine p', Atti della XXXVII Riunione Scientifica della Societa Italiana di Statistica, San Remo, Vol. 2, pp. 147-154

See Also

gedlogl

Examples

Run this code
#series of iid standard normal:
set.seed(123)
x <- rnorm(200)
gedestp(x)

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