How can I store fitdist output as a variable?

fitdist outputs distribution parameters but how can I store the numbers to a variable?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I don’t believe that’s possible. The fitdist function outputs a ‘probability distribution object’, apparently available only to specific functions.

If you want the parameters and confidence intervals, use the appropriate distribution fitting functions: normfit, poissfit, etc.

Answer 2

[mj]

You can access the output parameters like you access the fields of a struct, but you need to know the names of the parameters:

nu=8;
mu=4;
sigma=7;
nmc=100000;

x = mu + sigma * trnd(nu,nmc,1);
tls = fitdist(x,'tlocationscale')
[tls.mu tls.sigma tls.nu]'

Or you can access the names and values with tls.ParamNames and tls.Params. Use fieldnames(tls) for more info.