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Removed Laplace from the list of fit.md
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Expand Up @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The `fit_mle` method has been implemented for the following distributions:
- [`Normal`](@ref)
- [`Gamma`](@ref)
- [`Geometric`](@ref)
- [`Laplace`](@ref)
- [`Laplace`](@ref)
- [`Pareto`](@ref)
- [`Poisson`](@ref)
- [`Rayleigh`](@ref)
Expand All @@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ fit_mle(Categorical, k, x, w)
fit_mle(Categorical, x) # equivalent to fit_mle(Categorical, max(x), x)
fit_mle(Categorical, x, w)
```
!!! warning

Laplace distribution currently does not support weighted `fit_mle`.
## Sufficient Statistics

For many distributions, estimation can be based on (sum of) sufficient statistics computed from a dataset. To simplify implementation, for such distributions, we implement `suffstats` method instead of `fit_mle` directly:
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