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Dear all R users, Is there any way to calculate hessian matrix of a given function at any given point? Regards [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, my name is Marcel R. Lopes. My problem is, I made a code to calculate the estimates of a Cox model with random effects. Used to optimize the R command for this. The estimates were calculated correctly, but the Hessian matrix does not have good values. The same thing was done in SAS and gave good results for the Hessian Matrix. Where is the problem in R? As the Hessian is calculated?. How

Hi R-help! I'm trying to understand how R's nlm function updates its estimate of the Hessian matrix. The Dennis/Schnabel book cited in the references presents a number of different ways to do this, and seems to conclude that the positive-definite secant method (BFGS) works best in practice (p201). However, when I run my code through the optim function with the method as "BFGS",

Dear All, I am running a simulation to obtain coverage probability of Wald type confidence intervals for my parameter d in a function of two parameters (mu,d). I am optimizing it using "optim" method "L-BFGS-B" to obtain MLE. As, I want to invert the Hessian matrix to get Standard errors of the two parameter estimates. However, my Hessian matrix at times becomes

Hi I need to find the Hessian matrix for a complicated function from a certain kind of data but i keep getting this error Error in f1 - f2 : non-numeric argument to binary operator the data is given by U<-runif(n) Us<-sort(U) tau1<- 2 F1tau<- pgamma((tau1/theta1),shape,1) N1<-sum(Us<F1tau) X1<- Us[1:N1]

Dear all, I have a dataset that looks like this: inividual var1 var2 ? 1 1 1 ? 2 1 2 ? 3 2 1 ? 4 2 2 ? ? ? ? ? I will random sample 2 individuals from this dataset based on a set of random numbers, e.g., rn1 <- c(0, 0, 1, 1), rn2 <- c(0, 0, 2, 0), rn3 <- c(1, 0, 0, 1), rn4 <-

Hi, I have a scalar valued function with several variables. One of the variables is restricted to be non-negative. For example, f(x,y)=sqrt(x)*exp(y), then x should be non-negative. I need the gradient and hessian for some vector (0,y), i.e., I need the gradient and hessian at the boudary of parameter space. The "numderiv" package does not work, even for f(x)=sqrt(x), if you do

Hi, I was very much hoping someone could help me with the following. I am trying to convert some SAS NLMIXED code to NLME in R (v.2.1), but I get an error message. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think my error is with the random effect "u" which seems to be parametrized differently in the SAS code. In case it's helpful, what I am essentially trying to do is estimate parameters

below is a code to compute hessian matrix , which i need to generate 29 number of different matrices for example first element in x1 and x2 is use to generate let say matrix (M1) and second element in x1 and x2 give matrix (M2) upto  matrix (M29) corresponding to the total number of observations and b1 and b2 are constant.  can some one guide me or help to implement this please. I did not

Hey, R Users my windows is 64 bit windows 7.?I am trying to install the package ucminf into my 64 bit version R but cannot.??the package I downloaded is from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ucminf/index.html?and I installed it with the "install from local zip files", due to I did not connect my computer to internet. did anyone meet this problem and is there a version of

Hi, I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix (calculated from numDeriv::hessian, which I read in some other r-help post was meant to be more accurate than the hessian given in optim). To get the standard error estimates, I'm calculating sqrt(diag(solve(x))), hope that's correct. I've found

The R function "optim" fails when a function requires additional arguments, if the option "hessian=T" is specified. I am using R Version 1.0.0 on Windows 98. Here is an example of the Rosenbrock Banana function from the optim help example, with the function and gradient modified to take an additonal argument. Note that the call to optim works fine unless a hessian is

Dear helpers, I am using the function "constrOptim" to estimate a model with ML with an inequality constraint using the option method='Nelder-Mead'. When I specify the option: hessian = TRUE I obtain the response: Error in f(theta, ...) : unused argument(s) (hessian = TRUE) I guess the function "constrOptim" does not allow this argument which, on the other hand, is

Hi All, a colleague wants to calculate the Fisher information matrix for a model he wrote (not in R). He can easily get the neg-log-likelihood and the best fit parameters at the minimum. He can also get negLLs for other parameter values too. Given these data, is there a way in R to calculate the Fisher information matrix? Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology

Hi , I am trying to get some estimator based on lognormal distribution when we have left,interval, and right censored data. Since, there is now avalible pakage in R can help me in this, I had to write my own code using Newton Raphson method which requires first and second derivative of log likelihood but my problem after runing the code is the estimators were too high. with this email ,I provide

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

Hello, I would like to use the parfm package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/parfm/parfm.pdfhttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/parfm/parfm.pdf in my work. This package fits parametric frailty models to survival data. To ensure I was using it properly, I started by running some small simulations to generate some survival data (without any random effects), and analyse the data using

Hi all, Sorry to bother you. I'm estimating a discrete choice model in R using the maxBFGS command. Since I wrote the log-likelihood myself, in order to double check, I run the same model in Limdep. It turns out that the coefficient estimates are quite close; however, the standard errors are very different. I also computed the hessian and outer product of the gradients in R using the

hello all, I am getting wrong estimates from this code. do you know what could be the problem. thanks x<- c(1.6, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8, 1.8, 1.8) y <- c( 6, 13, 18, 28, 52, 53, 61, 60) n <- c(59, 60, 62, 56, 63, 59, 62, 60) DF <- data.frame(x, y, n) # note: there is no need to have the choose(n, y) term in the likelihood fn <- function(p, DF) { z <- p[1]+p[2]*DF$x

> On May 27, 2018, at 10:31 PM, francesc badia roca <fbr600 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have an issue using mle in versions of 32 bits. > > I am writing a package which I want to submit to the CRAN. > When doing the check, there is an example that has an error running in the > 32 bits version. > > The problem comes from the mle function, using it with a lower