similar to: nls works but not gnls

>>>>> "VW" == Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <Wolfgang.Viechtbauer at STAT.unimaas.nl> >>>>> 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>

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 that the

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 phone +49 (0)551 39 8807 fax +49

Hi, I guess this is a final plea, and maybe this should go to R-help but here goes. I am writing a set of functions for calibration and prediction, and to calculate standard errors and intervals I need the variance function to be evaluated at new prediction points. So for instance fit<-gnls(Y~SSlogis(foo,Asym,xmid,scal),weights=varPower())

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= curvature parameter, ti=

Hi I use gnls to fit non linear models of the form y = alpha * x**beta (alpha and beta being linear functions of a 2nd regressor z i.e. alpha=a1+a2*z and beta=b1+b2*z) with variance function varPower(fitted(.)) which sounds correct for the data set I use. My purpose is to use the fitted models for predictions with other sets of regressors x, z than those used in fitting. I therefore need to

Doug, I have been attempting to learn a little bit about nlme without too much documentation except the online help. The Latex file in the nlme directory looks interesting but uses packages that I do not have so that I have not been able to read it. I have run the example from gnls to compare it with the results I get from my libraries (code below - I have not included output as it is rather

Hi, I am not sure this is a bug but I can repeat it, The functions and data are below. I know this is nasty data, and it is very questionable whether a 4pl model is appropriate, but it is data fed to an automated tool and I would have hoped for an error. Does this repeat for anyone else? My details: > version _ platform i686-pc-linux-gnu

I have been using gnls with the weights argument (and varConstPower) to specify a variance structure for curve fits. In attempting to extract the parameters for the variance model I am seeing results I don't understand. When I simply display the model (or use "summary" on the model), I get what seem like reasonable values for both "power" and "const". When I

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

Hi all, I'm trying to fit a nonlinear (logistic-like) regression, and I'd like to get some recommendations for which package to use. The expression I want to fit is something like: y ~ A * exp(X * Beta1) / (1 + exp(-(x + X * Beta2 - xmid)/scal)) Basically, it's a logistic function, but I want to be able to modify the saturation amplitude by a few parameters (Beta1) and shift the

Greetings, 1) Is there a nice way of extracting the variance estimates from an lme fit? They don't seem to be part of the lme object. 2) In a series of simulations, I am finding that with ML fitting one of my random effect variances is sometimes being estimated as essentially zero with massive CI instead of the finite value it should have, whilst using REML I get the expected value. I guess

I am trying to compare Vbert growth curves from several years of fish data. I am following the code provided by: http://www.ncfaculty.net/dogle/fishR/gnrlex/VonBertalanffy/VonBertalanffy.pdf. Specifically the section on VBGM Comparisons between groups. ? This code is pretty cut and dry. I am able to run it perfectly with the "fake" data that is provided. But when I run it with my own

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, 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's been the result: Error

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

I have been using the nls function to fit some simple non-linear regression models for properties of graphite bricks to historical datasets. I have then been using these fits to obtain mean predictions for the properties of the bricks a short time into the future. I have also been calculating approximate prediction intervals. The information I have suggests that the assumption of a normal

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't know to set $a$ and $b$ as

How to set the nlme() function to return the answer without the intercept parametrization? #========================================================================================= library(nlme) Soybean[1:3, ] (fm1Soy.lis <- nlsList(weight ~ SSlogis(Time, Asym, xmid, scal),                        data = Soybean)) (fm1Soy.nlme <- nlme(fm1Soy.lis)) fm2Soy.nlme <- update(fm1Soy.nlme,

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 5.137458 -0.0040548687