[R] messages from mle function

bernardo lagos alvarez
2008-03-11T20:30:50Z

Dears useRs,
I am using the mle function but this gives me the follow erros that I
don't understand. Perhaps there is someone that can help me.

thank you for you atention.

Bernardo.


> erizo <- read.csv("Datos_Stokes_1.csv", header = TRUE)
> head(erizo)
  EDAD TALLA
1    0   7.7
2    1  14.5
3    1  16.9
4    1  13.2
5    1  24.4
6    1  22.5
> TAN <- function(edad,f,c,a,d) (1/sqrt(f))*log(abs(2*f*(edad-c)+
2*sqrt((f^2)*((edad-c)^2)+f*a)))+d
> loglike  = function(f,c,a,d)  {
+ edad  <- erizo$EDAD
+ LT    <- erizo$TALLA
+ N     <- length(edad)
+ sigma <- sum((LT - TAN(edad,f,c,a,d))^2) / N
+ logl  <- (N/2)*log(sigma) + (sum((LT - TAN(edad,f,c,a,d))^2) / (2*sigma))
+ }
> ini.pars <- list(f=5.91e-05,c=-0.41732,a=0.009661,d=846.7179)
> library(stats4)
> erizo.mle  <- mle(start= ini.pars, minuslogl = loglike,
method="Nelder-Mead", control = list(maxit=1500, trace=TRUE))
  Nelder-Mead direct search function minimizer
function value for initial parameters = 1159.477620
  Scaled convergence tolerance is 1.72776e-05
Stepsize computed as 84.671790
BUILD              5 3165.307359 1159.477620
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.
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HI-REDUCTION     303 1158.377359 1158.377314
LO-REDUCTION     305 1158.377339 1158.377303
LO-REDUCTION     307 1158.377321 1158.377303
Exiting from Nelder Mead minimizer
    309 function evaluations used
Error en optim(start, f, method = method, hessian = TRUE, ...) :
        non-finite finite-difference value [1]
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