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2008 Oct 30
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a nlm() question
Dear R listers,
   I have a very annoying problem using nlm().
   I want to find the minimizer of my target function, if written in  
\LaTeX is
   f(\mu1,\mu2,\sigma1,\sigma2) = \sum_i^n( w_ig_t(z_i) ), where  
g_t(z) is a pdf of  bivariate normal distribution and z_i is my samples.
    I cannot get the estimation result generated by nlm(), and I got  
the following errors
   "
Error in nlm(foo, theta.start, hessian = TRUE) :
   non-finite value supplied by 'nlm'
   "
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