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Dear all, I am trying to gain some experience with the function gnls from the nlme package. I tried to model the Theophyline data by trying to model the presumed dependency of the clearance on the body weight. This is my function call of gnls: gnls(conc~SSfol(Dose,Time,lKe,lKa,lCl),data=Theoph, params=list(lKe~1,lKa~1,lCl~Wt),start=c(-2.4,0.46,-3.22,0.01)) That&...

Last week (Wed 9/10/2003, "regression questions") I posted a question regarding the use of gnls( ) and its dissimilarity to the syntax that nls( ) will accept. No one replied, so I partly answered my own question by constructing indicator variables for use in gnls( ). The code I used to construct the indicators is at the end of this email. I do have a nagging, unanswered question: Wh...

Hello list: How to extract the value of "Rho" from a gnls() object. I am using gnls() function similar to res <- gnls(y~SSmicmen(),correlation=corCompSymm(form~1|b),data=dat) Thanks in advance, Mahbub. -- Mahbub Latif School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London United Kingdom [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, How can I extract the total and residual d.f. from a gnls object? I have tried str(summary(gnls.model)) and str(gnls.model) as well as gnls(), but couldn?t find the entry in the resulting lists. Many thanks! Best wishes Christoph -- Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber University of Goettingen DNPW, Agroecology Waldweg 26 D-37073 Goettingen Germany ph...

...t; >>>>> on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:00:19 +0200 writes: VW> Hi all, I'm trying to fit a marginal (longitudinal) VW> model with an exponential serial correlation function to VW> the Orange tree data set. However, R crashes frequently VW> when using the gnls() function. With the following VW> simple example, I was able to reproduce the problem. VW> gnls.exp <- gnls(circumference ~ Asym/(1 + exp(-(age-xmid)/scal)) , VW> data = Orange, correlation = corExp(form = ~1 | Tree), VW> start = c(Asym=150, xmid=750, scal=300)) Y...

This works fine: fit42<-nls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) But this, identical except using gnls, doesn't converge: fit43<-gnls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) Error in gnls(Vfs ~ SSlogis(Months, Asym.Int + Asym.Group * Groupdum, : Step halving factor reduced below minimum...

Back on January 16, a message on R-help from Ravi Varadhan described a problem with gnls using weights=varPower(). The problem was that the fit failed with error Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Object "." not found I can reliably get this error in version 2.0.1-patched 2004-12-09 on Windows XP and 2.0.1-Patched 2005-01-26 on Linux. The key feature of that example is...

Hi: I have data from an assay in the form of two vectors, one is response and the other is a predictor. When I attempt to fit a 5 parameter logistic model with "nls", I get converged parameter estimates. I also get the same answers with "gnls" without specifying the "weights" argument. However, when I attempt to use the "gnls" function and try to estimate the variance function, as a power function, I get the following error message: > ans51g <- gnls(log(b51) ~ p0 + p1/(1 + exp(-(log(dose)-p2)/p3))^p4,...

Hi all, I'm working with a dataset from 10 treatments, each treatment with 30 subjects, each subject measured 5 times. The plot of the dataset suggests that a 3-parameter logistic could be a reasonable function to describe the data. When I try to fit the model using gnls I got the message 'Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step'. I´m using as the initial values of the parameters those obtained from the nls fit. Is a problem of the initial estimates of the parameters that I get the error or could be something else? The code for the nls fit wa...

Dear R-helpers; While using gnls() to fit a function > Gbht0t.gnls <- gnls(h2 ~ Rht(b0, b1, b2, h1,t1, t2), data=gbht10, + params=list(b0 + b1 + b2 ~ Sisp -1), start=c(strssb0,strssb1,strssb2)) I encountered an error: "Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, extranames,...

Dear R-devel members, While writing a new correlation structure similar to 'corCompSymm' and intended to be used with 'gnls', I got puzzled with the 'Initialize' method. Using 'Initialize' before 'gnls' may be regarded as a mean to set an initial value for the corStruct parameter. However 'gnls' does not work properly with a 'corCompSymm' correlation structure when the data...

...onstant variance is not necessarily the most appropriate. I would like to see if I can obtain improved fits and hence more accurate predictions and prediction intervals by experimenting with a) a non-constant (time dependent) variance and b) a non-normal error distribution. It looks to me like the gnls function from the nlme R package is probably the appropriate one to use for both these situations. However, I have looked at the gnls help files/documentation and am still left unsure as to how to specify the arguments of the gnls function in order to achieve what I want. In particular, I am unsure...

Dear R-list members, Some months ago I wrote a message on the usage of gnls (nlme library) and here I come again. Let me give an example: I have a 10 year length-at-age data set of 10 fishes (see growth.dat at the end of this message) and I want to fit a von Bertalanffy growth model, Li= Linf*(1-exp(-k*(ti-t0))) where Li = length at age i, Linf= asymptotic length, k= cur...

Hi All, I have question about speficifying a constant in gnls() from package nlme. Here is a testing code: ############# library(nlme) x = exp( rnorm(100)) y = 1/(1+x) + rnorm(100)/10 plot( y ~ x) fm1 = gnls( y ~ 1/(1+(x/v)^w), start=list( v=1, w=1)) a =1; b=1; fm2 = gnls( y ~ a/(b+(x/v)^w), start=list( v=1, w=1)) #This won't work because I don...

Hi, I've been trying to work with the gnls() function in the "nlme" package. My decision to use gnls() was so that I could fit varPower and such to some of the data. However, in working with a small dataset, I've found that the results given by gnls() don't seem to make any sense and they differ substantially from th...

Dear R-Help, I'm trying to fit a model of the following form using gnls. I've fitted it using nlsList with the following syntax: nlsList(Y~log(exp(a0-a1*X)+exp(b0-b1*X))|K,start=list (a0=6,a1=0.2,b0=4.5,b1=0.001),data=data.frame(Y=y,X=X,K=k))) which works just fine: <snip> Coefficients: a0 a1 b0 b1 1 5.459381 0.5006811...

Hi, I've made a selfStart function for use with gnls and the following piece of code works nicely: check1 <- gnls(y ~ spot.shape.fct(xcord, ycord, background, spotintensity, rho, sigma, delta, mux, muy), start=getInitial(y ~ spot.shape.fct(xcord, ycord, backgrou...

Dear R users; I was trying to fit a nonlinear model using gnls (nlme version 3.1-80, R 2.5.0, WinXP) and I got the following error and warning message: Error in gnls(ht ~ a1 * hd * (1 - a2 * exp(-a3 * (dbh/dq2))), data = hdat, : Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step In addition: Warning message: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vec...

 Dear R-helpers, I'm a new R-user and I was trying to gain some experience with the GNLS function of the NLME package.  This is an extract from my dataset (it's a 432x6 data.frame) called "input", in the first column I have the values that I need to fit, while the remaining columns are input variables for the theoretical model, the function "mymodel" (which ret...

Hi R-users, Could you give me some advice in solving the problem of such error message from gnls and nls? ## begin error message "Problem in gnls(y1 ~ glogit4(b, c, m, t, x), data.frame(x..: Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step " ##and "Problem in nls(y ~ 1/(1 + exp((xmid - x)/scal)), data = x..: step factor reduced below minimum "? Thank you in advan...