similar to: "Error : singular gradient matrix at initial parameters estimates"

Hi, I am using nls to fit a non linear function to some data but R keeps giving me "singular gradient matrix at initial parameter estimates" errors. For testing purposes I am doing this: ### R code ### x <- 0:140 y <- 200 / (1 + exp(17 - x)/2) * exp(-0.02*x) # creating 'perfect' samples with fitting model yeps <- y + rnorm(length(y), sd = 2) # adding noise # results

Greetings, I am struggling a bit with a non-linear regression. The problem is described below with the known values r and D inidcated. I tried to alter the start values but get always following error message: Error in nlsModel(formula, mf, start, wts): singular gradient matrix at initial parameter estimates Calls: nls -> switch -> nlsModel I might be missing something with regard to the

I am using nls to fit a non linear function to some data. The non linear function is: y= 1- exp(-(k0+k1*p1+ .... + kn*pn)) I have chosen algorithm "port", with lower boundary is 0 for all of the ki parameters, and I have tried many start values for the parameters ki (including generating them at random). If I fit the non linear function to the same data using an external

Why fails nls with "singular gradient" here? I post a minimal example on the bottom and would be very happy if someone could help me. Kind regards, ########### # define some constants smallc <- 0.0001 t <- seq(0,1,0.001) t0 <- 0.5 tau1 <- 0.02 # generate yy(t) yy <- 1/2 * ( 1- tanh((t - t0)/smallc) * exp(-t / tau1) ) + rnorm(length(t))*0.01 # show the curve

SSweibull() :  problems with step factor and singular gradient Hello I am working with growth data of ~4000 tree seedlings and trying to fit non-linear Weibull growth curves through the data of each plant. Since they differ a lot in their shape, initial parameters cannot be set for all plants. That’s why I use the self-starting function SSweibull(). However, I often got two error messages:

//Referring to the response posted many years ago, copied below, what is the specific criterium used for singularity of the gradient matrix? Is a Singular Value Decomposition used to determine the singular values? Is it the gradient matrix condition number or some other criterion for determining singularity? // //Glenn // / / /> What does the error 'singular gradient' mean

Dear friends. I use nls() and encounter the following puzzling problem: I have a function f(a,b,c,x), I have a data vector of x and a vectory y of realized value of f. Case1 I tried to estimate c with (a=0.3, b=0.5) fixed: nls(y~f(a,b,c,x), control=list(maxiter = 100000, minFactor=0.5 ^2048),start=list(c=0.5)). The error message is: "number of iterations exceeded maximum of

w.age.female.2004 <- nls(WEIGHT ~ (alpha*TOTAL^beta)/454, start=list(alpha=1, beta=3), data=spottedseatrout2004.female.data) I am trying to fit above model to length-weight data of a fish species (spotted seatrout) by year (1999-2006). The convergence occurred for all the years except 2002 and 2004. In these two year, R shows the error called

Hello, I am trying to model a type II functional response of number of prey eaten (Ne) against number supplied (No) with a non-linear least squares regression (nls). I am using a modification of Holling's (1959) disc equation to account for non-replacement of prey; Ne=No{1-exp[a(bNe-T)]} where a is the attack rate, b is the handling time, and T is the experimental period. My script is as

Hi all. Sorry for posting again such a topic but I went through previous posts but couldn't find a solution. I use the following code to fit an exponential model to my data. I have 4 different datasets. For 3 datasets nls seems to work fine and I have no error messages. But for 1 dataset I am getting the "world known" singular gradient error. xfit.dNEE <-

I'm attempting to calculate a regression in R that I normally use Prism for, because the formula isn't pretty by any means. Prism presents the formula (which is in the Prism equation library as Heterologous competition with depletion, if anyone is curious) in these segments: KdCPM = KdnM*SpAct*Vol*1000 R=NS+1 S=(1+10^(X-LogKi))*KdCPM+Hot a=-1*R b=R*S+NS*Hot+BMax c = -1*Hot*(S*MS+BMax) Y

Hi, I am a non-expert user of R. I am essaying the fit of two different functions to my data, but I receive two different error messages. I suppose I have two different problems here... But, of which nature? In the first instance I did try with some different starting values for the parameters, but without success. If anyone could suggest a sensible way to proceed to solve these I would be

I tried to fit data with the following function: fit<-nls(y~ Is*(1-exp(-l*x))+Iph,start=list(Is=-2e-5,l=2.3,Iph=-0.3 ),control=list(maxiter=500,minFactor=1/10000,tol=10e-05),trace=TRUE) But I get only a singular Gradient warning... the data can by found attached(there are two sampels of data col 1/2 and 3/4). I tried to fix it by chanching the start parameters but that didn't solve the

I'm trying to fit a Gompertz sigmoid as follows: x <- c(15, 16, 17, 18, 19) # arbitrary example data here; y <- c(0.1, 1.8, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9) # actual data is similar gm <- nls(y ~ a+b*exp(-exp(-c*(x-d))), start=c(a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?)) I have been unable to properly set the starting value '?'s. All of my guesses yield either a "singular gradient" error if they

Hi All, I'm trying to run nls on the data from the study by Marske (Biochemical Oxygen Demand Interpretation Using Sum of Squares Surface. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967) and was reported in Bates and Watts (1988). Data is as follows, (stored as mydata) time bod 1 1 0.47 2 2 0.74 3 3 1.17 4 4 1.42 5 5 1.60 6 7 1.84 7 9 2.19 8 11 2.17 I then

I am trying to fit a nonlinear regression to infiltration data in order to determine saturated hydraulic conductivity and matric pressure. The original equation can be found in Bagarello et al. 2004 SSSAJ (green-ampt equation for falling head including gravity). I am also VERY new to R and to nonlinear regressions. I have searched the posts, but am still unable to determine why my data come up

Hi, I am new to R. I don't have strong background of statistics. I am a student of Geotechnical Engineering. I tried to run a nonlinear regression for a three-variable function, that is N = f(CSR, ev) # N is a function of CSR and ev, and N = CSR/(A +B*CSR), wherer (A,B) are function of ev. N, CSR and ev are observed in the experiments. Following is my R script. rm(list=ls())

Hello, I hope this doesn't turn into a statistics question but here I go. I am using the nls function with a Gaussian distribution, see coding below. When I run the nls I get an error back saying that I have a linear gradient. I then, of course am unable to do anything else. The data that I am using are intensity values from some mass spectrometry data. Is there something I can

I am trying to model a dependent variable as a threshold function of my independent variable. What I mean is that I want to fit different intercepts to y following 2 breakpoints, but with fixed slopes. I am trying to do this with using ifelse statements in the nls function. Perhaps, this is not an appropriate approach. I have created a very simple example to illustrate what I am trying to do.

Hallo! I have a problem with fitting data with nls. The first example with y1 (data frame df1) shows an error, the second works fine. Is there a possibility to get a fit (e.g. JMP can fit also data I can not manage to fit with R). Sometimes I also got an error singularity with starting parameters. # x-values x<-c(-1,5,8,11,13,15,16,17,18,19,21,22) # y1-values (first data set)