Skip to content

EstimationTools

Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Probability Functions from Data Sets

v4.3.1 · Sep 8, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Total Time on Test plot and routines for parameter estimation of any lifetime distribution implemented in R via maximum likelihood (ML) given a data set. It is implemented thinking on parametric survival analysis, but it feasible to use in parameter estimation of probability density or mass functions in any field. The main routines 'maxlogL' and 'maxlogLreg' are wrapper functions specifically developed for ML estimation. There are included optimization procedures such as 'nlminb' and 'optim' from base package, and 'DEoptim' Mullen (2011) <doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i06>. Standard errors are estimated with 'numDeriv' Gilbert (2011) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=numDeriv> or the option 'Hessian = TRUE' of 'optim' function.

Downloads

CRAN

652

Last 30 days

4915th

2K

Last 90 days

8.6K

Last year

Trend: +4.5% (30d vs prior 30d)

r2u CRAN

10

Last 30 days

25

Last 90 days

121

Last year

Trend: -33.3% (30d vs prior 30d)

autoCRAN

1

Last 7 days

20

Last 30 days

0

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

CRAN Check Status

13 OK
Show all 13 flavors
Flavor Status
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘car’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (1)

depends

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies survival DEoptim BBmisc GA Rdpack numDeriv boot autoimage stringr gaussquad car RelDists EstimationTools

Version History

8 tracked
new 4.3.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 4.3.1 ← 4.0.0 diff Sep 8, 2025
updated 4.0.0 ← 2.1.0 diff Dec 9, 2022
updated 2.1.0 ← 2.0.0 diff Mar 9, 2021
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.2.1 diff Aug 2, 2020
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Oct 23, 2019
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.0 diff Jun 10, 2019
new 1.1.0 Jun 5, 2019