[R] maximum likelihood example?

[Bill Oliver]

Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> I'm trying to get a grasp of maximum-likelihood estimation and would like to
> find a package that performs mle (hopefully a simple example). It seems as
> if there are plenty of packages that make use of different types of
> likelihood estimators, but none are of a simple, "newbie" type. Does anyone
> have a suggestion for which package would be the best for a mle example?
> 

I would suggest that you check out the very good book by Yudi Pawitan 
entitled "In all likelihood". He provides the R code for *all* of the 
examples and figures in the book at the following web page.

http://statistics.ucc.ie/staff/yudi/

-Bill