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Hello! I am running R-2.3.1-i386-1 on Slackware Linux 10.2. I am a former matlab user, moving to R. In matlab, via the cftool, I performed nonlinear curve fitting using the method "nonlinear least squares" with the "Trust-Region" algorithm and not using robust fitting. Is it possible to perform the same analysis in R? I read quite a lot of R documentation, but I could not find

Dear Mr Graves, Thank you very much for your response. Nobody else from this mailing list ventured to reply to me for the two weeks since I posted my question. "nlminb" and "optim" are just optimization procedures. What I need is not just optimization, but a nonlinear CURVE FITTING procedure. If there is some way to perform nonlinear curve fitting with the

Is there a way to call Matlab and Gauss code in R? I see functions that work for C/FORTRAN, but not for other languages. Brian -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !)

I am using both nlminb and optim to get MLEs from a likelihood function I have developed. AFAIK, the model I has not been previously used in this way and so I am struggling a bit to unit test my code since I don't have another data set to compare this kind of estimation to. The likelihood I have is (in tex below) \begin{equation} \label{eqn:marginal} L(\beta) = \prod_{s=1}^N \int

Not real data. It was gererated randomly. The original codes are the following: par(mfrow=c(2,1)) n <- 500 ######################### #DATA GENERATING PROCESS# ######################### x1 <- rnorm(n,0,1) x2 <- rchisq(n,df=3,ncp=0)-3 sigma <- 1 u1 <- rnorm(n,0,sigma) ylatent1 <-x1+x2+u1 y1 <- (ylatent1 >=0) # create the binary indicator ####################### #THE

I want to fit a multinomial model with logit link. For example let this matrix to be analyzed: male female aborted factor 10 12 1 1.2 14 14 4 1.3 15 12 3 1.4 (this is an example, not the true data which are far more complex...) I suppose the correct function to analyze these data is polr from MASS library. The data have been

Hi Fellows from R-Help List! My questions are basic since i an new with R. I am very acquainted with Matlab & Gauss (the compentence, I guess). Anyhow, (1) I am trying to get R execute comands made or built as text, so that one can feed a particular option with many variations coming from a text file. Is this possible with the free version? For instance, there exists the eval comand in

There has recently been some discussion on the list about AD Model builder and the suitability of R for constructing the types of models used in fisheries management. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-January/086841.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-January/086858.html I think that many R users understimate the numerical challenges that some of the typical

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:51:25 -0800 Jeff Newmiller via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote: > The fundamental data type in Matlab is a matrix... they don't have > vectors, they have Nx1 matrices and 1xM matrices. Also known as column vectors and row vectors. :) > Vectors don't have any concept of "row" vs. "column". They do in (numerical) linear

I know Matlab's M file can be converted to a stand-alone executable file. I wonder if there is a project aimed at compiling R scripts into stand-alone executable file. I think it will be very promising for R to be more widely used in different fields. -- View this message in context:

I have had some weird results using the optim() function. I wrote a probit likelihood and wanted to run it with optim() with simulated data. I did not include a gradient at first and found that optim() would not even iterate using BFGS and would only occasionally work using SANN. I programmed in the gradient and it iterates fine but the estimates it returns are wrong. The simulated data work

is there a way to do element-by-element multiplication as in Gauss and MATLAB, as shown below? Thanks. --- a 1.0000000 2.0000000 3.0000000 x 1.0000000 2.0000000 3.0000000 2.0000000 4.0000000 6.0000000 3.0000000 6.0000000 9.0000000 a.*x 1.0000000 2.0000000 3.0000000 4.0000000

Dear R helpers, I need to estimate a probit model with box constraints placed on several of the model parameters. I have the following two questions: 1) How are the standard errors calclulated in glm (family=binomial(link="probit")? I ran a typical probit model using the glm probit link and the nlminb function with my own coding of the loglikehood, separately. As nlminb does not

Dear List, I am using both the clm() and clmm() functions from the R package 'ordinal'. I am fitting an ordinal dependent variable with 5 categories to 9 continuous predictors, all of which have been normalised (mean subtracted then divided by standard deviation), using a probit link function. From this global model I am generating a confidence set of 200 models using clm() and the

Hi all; I'm trying to fit a reparameterization of the assymptotic regression model as that shown in Ratkowsky (1990) page 96. Y~y1+(((y2-y1)*(1-((y2-y3)/(y3-y1))^(2*(X-x1)/(x2-x1))))/(1-((y2-y3)/(y3-y1))^2)) where y1,y2,y3 are expected-values for X=x1, X=x2, and X=average(x1,x2), respectively. I tried first with Statistica v7 by LS and Gauss-Newton algorithm without success (no

Hi all. I'm just starting to explore ordinal multinomial regression. My dataset is 300,000 rows, with an outcome (ordinal factor from 1 to 9) and five independent variables (all continuous). My first stab at it was this: pomod <- polr(Npf ~ o_stddev + o_skewness + o_kurtosis + o_acl_1e + dispersal, rlc, Hess=TRUE) And that worked; I got a good model fit. However, a variety of other

Greetings fellow R entusiasts! We have some problems converting a computer routine written initially for Gauss to estimate a Markov Regime Switching analysis with Time Varying Transition Probability. The source code in Gauss is here: http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/cnelson/markov/programs/hmt_tvp.opt We have converted the code to R, and it's running without errors, but we have some

I have constructed the function mml2 (below) based on the likelihood function described in the minimal latex I have pasted below for anyone who wants to look at it. This function finds parameter estimates for a basic Rasch (IRT) model. Using the function without the gradient, using either nlminb or optim returns the correct parameter estimates and, in the case of optim, the correct standard

As part of carrying out a complicated maximum likelihood estimation, I am trying to learn to program likelihoods in R. I started with a simple probit model but am unable to get the code to work. Any help or suggestions are most welcome. I give my code below: ************************************ mlogl <- function(mu, y, X) { n <- nrow(X) zeta <- X%*%mu llik <- 0 for (i in 1:n) { if

Hello all, I am wondering if there is a way to do a spatial error probit/logit model in R? I can't seem to find it in any of the packages. I can do it in MATLAB with Gibbs sampling, but would like to confirm the results. Ideally I would like to use this model to predict probability of parcel conversion in a future time period. This seems especially difficult in a binary outcome model