Hello to everybody, I want to implement a non-linear least square curve fitting and I am using the package "nlmrt", concretely the function nlxb. I have a dataset with three variables and 176 values, one response variables (R) and two predicting variables (T and H). When I fit a model of the form R ~ a*b^((T-10)/10) to my data using the function nlxb seems to be all ok with a complet output; the same happens when I fit a model R ~ a + b*H - c*H^2. But due to my research interest, when I try to fit a model result of the product of the above models (R ~ (b1*b2^((T-10)/10))*(b3 + b4*H - b5*H^2) I do obtain NA values in the SE, tstat and pval fields from the nlxb output, as showed below: nlmrt class object: x residual sumsquares = 25348 on 176 observations after 4 Jacobian and 5 function evaluations name coeff SE tstat pval gradient JSingval R10 0.0619936 NA NA NA 7.494e-06 8822 Q10 2.27113 NA NA NA 5.422e-08 217.5 a 133.85 NA NA NA -2.288e-09 75.96 b 56.8145 NA NA NA 8.058e-09 0.658 c 1.11775 NA NA NA 2.8e-07 1.928e-15 I would like to know which error do you think I am making. Attached is the document which contain the data. Thank you very much in advance, Carlos. -- Carlos Ortiz O?ate PhD student Department of Agricultural Production Technical University of Madrid e-mail: ortiz.onate.carlos at gmail.com <teba at life.ku.dk> -------------- next part -------------- R T H 36.47 14.10 5.95 34.28 14.25 5.65 35.86 14.90 7.78 38.18 18.10 4.53 33.52 14.40 6.15 29.44 14.60 4.55 34.79 14.80 6.78 20.38 16.70 3.58 26.70 14.90 3.00 33.30 14.90 3.65 20.28 15.00 3.58 51.18 16.90 2.78 29.76 14.90 2.48 14.90 15.10 2.40 21.05 15.30 3.10 16.18 17.10 2.85 26.50 11.40 10.85 37.69 11.90 7.08 37.37 11.90 7.30 27.02 12.00 5.83 42.16 7.20 26.03 47.75 7.70 20.15 53.05 7.90 17.78 26.48 8.00 13.53 47.50 7.20 11.45 28.47 7.40 20.85 45.62 7.40 15.23 42.31 7.90 16.45 18.10 4.10 27.35 27.71 5.50 17.58 34.27 5.60 28.33 27.75 5.70 21.03 33.09 4.20 37.28 19.05 4.20 41.63 14.08 4.80 36.48 23.15 5.30 28.93 24.64 4.30 31.48 35.80 4.40 33.50 23.41 4.40 32.63 29.63 4.60 25.25 78.01 10.00 25.45 60.40 10.20 28.28 61.32 10.20 32.35 48.25 10.30 28.45 54.62 11.00 18.63 55.19 11.10 21.18 69.03 11.80 22.03 64.01 14.40 15.78 41.20 12.70 16.43 39.20 12.80 12.63 35.20 12.90 12.88 79.98 15.30 11.03 69.60 13.80 27.65 64.32 14.00 18.20 93.22 14.30 24.58 91.86 15.80 22.23 50.28 14.40 4.73 37.03 14.50 5.03 47.23 14.90 5.33 47.65 16.80 3.93 48.68 14.90 8.38 73.43 14.90 10.00 47.31 15.10 7.38 75.10 15.90 11.93 45.40 12.60 10.13 47.86 12.90 9.28 49.39 13.10 12.05 37.27 13.70 5.53 41.63 8.40 11.43 53.83 9.10 11.48 36.66 9.20 8.85 44.03 9.60 11.23 45.94 5.90 29.70 60.64 6.60 14.98 48.91 6.60 23.83 47.02 6.60 25.13 13.62 1.30 14.98 24.86 1.60 13.75 27.28 1.80 17.08 28.16 2.20 14.13 23.29 2.60 39.65 23.23 2.60 36.35 25.10 2.70 36.05 25.68 3.40 32.85 54.88 9.90 26.80 39.19 10.50 25.23 59.74 10.90 25.03 42.39 12.50 26.23 49.24 6.80 30.65 52.70 7.00 30.00 49.18 7.50 29.43 69.69 7.60 29.30 56.05 9.80 28.78 45.72 9.90 26.53 56.07 10.30 28.70 48.40 11.80 29.25 39.10 14.60 11.15 58.45 14.90 9.58 78.41 15.50 6.50 65.89 15.70 12.05 45.25 13.40 5.40 45.87 14.00 5.00 32.47 14.40 7.05 46.08 16.70 1.65 43.08 16.70 4.18 50.24 17.10 6.43 39.22 17.60 4.83 26.41 17.70 5.30 37.58 12.30 5.78 20.67 12.90 3.15 25.80 12.90 2.63 27.71 13.20 3.80 22.74 13.20 4.50 17.18 13.40 4.50 17.95 13.70 5.75 15.77 14.30 4.75 80.91 6.60 24.25 37.71 6.80 17.00 60.88 7.30 17.50 47.62 7.30 15.00 45.92 4.40 27.50 19.28 5.70 19.50 32.94 6.10 22.25 52.46 6.40 19.50 20.03 1.20 25.88 26.29 1.90 23.75 25.09 2.40 21.00 35.26 2.80 23.10 11.00 1.30 27.60 23.49 1.60 22.70 48.21 2.40 21.38 17.76 3.10 24.95 10.95 1.70 27.60 20.90 1.80 24.95 28.61 1.90 22.70 47.77 2.00 21.38 24.96 3.10 19.55 20.90 6.10 19.75 24.63 6.20 17.45 27.10 6.20 22.30 28.96 10.00 18.70 32.04 10.00 15.80 44.78 10.20 19.60 50.55 10.80 21.40 33.81 11.70 9.80 42.71 12.00 12.60 42.32 12.10 11.90 56.49 16.80 11.20 53.77 12.50 12.10 81.96 12.80 12.00 67.85 13.40 9.00 38.25 13.60 9.90 58.57 16.00 3.40 44.80 16.00 3.40 27.37 16.30 3.00 52.12 18.30 5.10 15.24 13.60 1.70 8.97 13.90 1.80 13.60 14.20 3.90 4.24 14.30 2.60 25.73 13.40 3.80 24.97 13.50 3.10 29.62 13.50 3.90 23.37 13.60 7.10 34.60 10.40 17.60 35.98 10.50 9.70 42.13 10.60 10.60 43.51 11.50 6.80 43.17 8.80 14.60 34.13 9.10 9.80 51.48 9.40 11.00 42.47 9.40 8.30 12.27 6.00 26.30 27.19 6.10 17.20 26.06 6.40 20.70 36.07 6.50 19.90