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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

Dear R users; I'm trying to fit nonlinear model (asymptotic regression model) with gnls from library nlme in R 2.1.0 with no big issues so far. However after installed the version R 2.1.1, when I tried to update the initial model including a var-cov model I've got the error: "Error: Object "convIter" not found". This error occurs only with R 2.1.1. Any ideas? Thanks

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=

Hello, I'm trying to adjust a non linear model in which the biological response variable (ratio of germinated fungus spores) is dependent on 2 covariates (temperature and time). The response to temperature is modeled by a kind of beta function with 2 parameters (optimal and maximum temperatures) and the time function is a 2-parameter Weibull. Adjustments with nls or gnls work, but I need to

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 have data from an assay in the form of two vectors, one is response and the other is a predictor. When I attempt to fit a 5 parameter logistic model with "nls", I get converged parameter estimates. I also get the same answers with "gnls" without specifying the "weights" argument. However, when I attempt to use the "gnls" function and try to

This works fine: fit42<-nls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) But this, identical except using gnls, doesn't converge: fit43<-gnls(Vfs~SSlogis(Months,Asym.Int+Asym.Group*Groupdum,xmid,scal), data=df, start=c(Asym.Int=22,Asym.Group=5,xmid=2,scal=6), na.action=na.omit) Error in gnls(Vfs

Dear List Members I'm using R to create a trellis plot using the library of Pinheiro & Bates (trellis graph for grouped data). Here is my question: How can I change the format of the axis (x or y) in terms of the number decimal points that should appear on the plot? In other words, I have that for a set of plots in the y-axis the values appear as 0.2,0.3, etc and for another set they

Dear R users; I was trying to fit a nonlinear model using gnls (nlme version 3.1-80, R 2.5.0, WinXP) and I got the following error and warning message: Error in gnls(ht ~ a1 * hd * (1 - a2 * exp(-a3 * (dbh/dq2))), data = hdat, : Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step In addition: Warning message: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in:

Dear all, When doing nonlinear regression, we normally use nls if e are iid normal. i learned that if the form of the variance of e is not completely known, we can use the IRWLS (Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares ) algorithm: for example, var e*i =*g0+g1*x*1 1. Start with *w**i = *1 2. Use least squares to estimate b. 3. Use the residuals to estimate g, perhaps by regressing e^2 on

Last week (Wed 9/10/2003, "regression questions") I posted a question regarding the use of gnls( ) and its dissimilarity to the syntax that nls( ) will accept. No one replied, so I partly answered my own question by constructing indicator variables for use in gnls( ). The code I used to construct the indicators is at the end of this email. I do have a nagging, unanswered

Hi all I?m trying to get confidence intervals for parameters from nls modeling. I fitted a nls model to the following variables: > x [1] 2 1 1 5 4 6 13 11 13 101 101 101 > y [1] 1.281055090 1.563609934 0.001570796 2.291579783 0.841891853 [6] 6.553951324 14.243274230 14.519899320 15.066473610 21.728809880 [11] 18.553054450 23.722637370 The model fitted was:

Dear R users; Ive got two questions concerning nlme library 3.1-65 (running on R 2.2.0 / Win XP Pro). The first one is related to augPred function. Ive been working with a nonlinear mixed model with no problems so far. However, when the parameters of the model are specified in terms of some other covariates, say treatment (i.e. phi1~trt1+trt2, etc) the augPred function give me the following

Hello R folks, I'm hoping the answer to the question in the subject line. I have in the past used SAS PROC NLIN and PROC NLP to carry out nonlinear optimizations. I'm wondering if there is analogous ways for doing this using R. If so, could someone please point me to some literature that would help me examine this further? Thanks very much. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, Is it possible to generate AIC or something equivalent for nonlinear model estimated based on maximum log likelihood l in R? I used nls based on least squares to estimate, and therefore I cannot assess the quality of models with AIC. nlme seems good for only mixed models and mine is not mixed models. res <- nls(y ~ d*(x)^3+a*(x)^2+b*x+c, start=list(a=2, b=1,c=1,d=1), data=d) If

I am using the gnls procedure in nlme package to fit a nonlinear model as: nl.fit<-gnls(Y ~ b0*exp(b1/X), data = data1, params=list( b0~p1+I(p1^2)+p2+I(p2^2)+p3+I(p3^2)+p5+p6 b1~p8+p2+I(p2^2)+p3+p9+p10+p11), start = c(25,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8.6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), weights=varPower(form =~ X)

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

Hi there, I'm trying to fit a growth curve to some data and need to use a weighted least squares estimator to account for heteroscedasticity in the data. A weights argument is available in nls that would appear to be appropriate for this purpose, but it is listed as 'not yet implemented'. Is there another package which could implement this procedure? Regards, Robert Brown

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 R Help, I am trying to fit a nonlinear model for a mean function $\mu(Data_i, \beta)$ for a fixed covariance matrix where $\beta$ and $\mu$ are low- dimensional. More specifically, for fixed variance-covariance matrices $\Sigma_{z=0}$ and $\Sigma_{z=1}$ (according to a binary covariate $Z $), I am trying to minimize: $\sum_{i=1^n} (Y_i-\mu_(Data_i,\beta))' \Sigma_{z=z_i}^{-1} (Y_i-