What's happening inside the fitdist function in MATLAB ?

Hi, I would like to know more about fitdist function defined in MATLAB. Which method is following in this function to generate the parameters of set of data with respect to a particular distribution. Kindly help me.

Answer 1

[Swarooph]

You have 3 options. I present them in the decreasing order of ease of use: (Easiest first)

1. Read documentation for the function here: http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016a/stats/fitdist.html

2. Read the references quoted in the documentation for this function: http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016a/stats/fitdist.html#References

3. Go through the function itself. You can open the function using the following command:

edit fitdist

[Dhanuja Elizabeth Thomas]

Sorry, I want to know the method following in fitdist for extracting the parameters.