maxLik

News

• September 22, 2008:
  The maxLik package is developed on R-Forge now. Its summary page is available here.

What is maxLik?

• maxLik is an extension package for the "language and environment for statistical computing and graphics" called R.
• maxLik provides tools for maximum likelihood (ML) estimations.

What can maxLik do?

• Newton-Raphson (NR)
• Berndt-Hall-Hall-Hausman (BHHH)
• Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS)
• simulated annealing (SANN)
• Nelder-Mead (NM)

Who has written maxLik?

• Ott Toomet
• Arne Henningsen

Where can I get maxLik?

• The released version is available on CRAN
  • You can download the source code, binaries for MacOS X and MS-Windows, and the reference manual from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/maxLik/index.html.
  • You can install the package by typing at the R prompt (if you have internet access):

     install.packages( "maxLik" )

• The current development version is available on R-Forge
  • You can download the source code and binaries for MacOS X and MS-Windows from http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=254.
  • You can install the package by typing at the R prompt (if you have internet access):

     install.packages( "maxLik", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org" )

Under which license is maxLik released?

• Under the GNU General Public License (GPL)

How can I contact you?

• Send an email to info(at)maxLik.org
• Take a look at http://www.obs.ee/~siim/english.html or http://www.arne-henningsen.name