title: How would you fit a gamma distribution to a data in R?
body: <p>Suppose I have the variable x that was generated using the following approach:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>x &lt;- rgamma(100,2,11) + rnorm(100,0,.01) #gamma distr + some gaussian noise
  
      head(x,20)
   [1] 0.35135058 0.12784251 0.23770365 0.13095612 0.18796901 0.18251968
   [7] 0.20506117 0.25298286 0.11888596 0.07953969 0.09763770 0.28698417
  [13] 0.07647302 0.17489578 0.02594517 0.14016041 0.04102864 0.13677059
  [19] 0.18963015 0.23626828
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How could I fit a gamma distribution to it?</p>