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Thanks for the response. I was not very clear in my original request. What I am asking is if in a non-linear estimation problem using nls(), as the condition number of the Hessian matrix becomes larger, will the t-values of one or more of the parameters being estimated in general become smaller in absolute value -- that is, are low t-values a sign of an ill-conditioned Hessian? Typical