Safely Fit a Distribution — safe_fit • anumaan

Wrapper around fitdistrplus::fitdist that returns NULL instead of throwing an error when fitting fails.

Usage

safe_fit(x, dist)

Arguments

x: Numeric vector of positive values (e.g., LOS in days).
dist: Character. Distribution name: "weibull", "lnorm", or "gamma".

Value

A fitdist object, or NULL on failure.

Examples

safe_fit(rlnorm(100), "lnorm")
#> Fitting of the distribution ' lnorm ' by maximum likelihood 
#> Parameters:
#>           estimate Std. Error
#> meanlog -0.1632808 0.09814576
#> sdlog    0.9814576 0.06939921