title: ‘Lecture 11: Distributions as Models’ author: “36-350”" date: “1 October 2014”" output: beamer_presentation transition: none font-family: Garamond —

Previously

• R functions for regression models
• R functions for probability distributions

Agenda

• Distributions from data
• Review of R for theoretical distributions
• Fitting distributions to data
• Checking distributions against data

Let’s Load Some Cheerful Data

data("cats",package="MASS")