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From: Peter Perkins <Peter.PerkinsRemoveThis@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: AIC for CDF fit
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:45:09 -0500
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Xiaoxiao Mao wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Peter
> yes, the wbllike can give me the likelihood for the weibull fit, so as the lognlike. i am also considering the rician, rayleigh and nakagami, but matlab did not provide such funciton for likelihood estimation except i copy from dfittool. 
> So i am wondering is there method i can get the likelihood by not accessing dfittool, or can i know how matlab calculate the loglikelihood for funciton lognlike and wbllike? is it simplely 
> log(sum(error^2)/N) % take log of MSE

"edit lognlike wbllike"