similar to: Using varPower in gnls, an answer of sorts.

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 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())

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,

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

>>>>> "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>

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

Works perfectly. Thank you. -Hugh Rand -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at pdf.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:41 PM To: Rand, Hugh Cc: 'r-help at lists.R-project.org' Subject: Re: [R] trouble with extraction/interpretation of variance structure para meters from a model built using gnls and varConstPower How about this: >

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

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

Mmmh, seems as if I really should change my options as I seem to keep sending off empty bug-reports ;-/ Sorry guys. Here is the content that should have been in the last e-mail: `R CMD check nlme' fails on my machine. The final output in nlme-Ex.Rout is: > library(nlme) > data(Soybean) > fm1 <- nlme(weight ~ SSlogis(Time, Asym, xmid, scal), data = Soybean, + fixed =

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

Could someone explain the meaming of this error message from augPred: > augPred(area3.pen.nlme, primary=~day) Error in predict.nlme(object, value[1:(nrow(value)/nL), , drop = FALSE], : Levels 1,2,3 not allowed for block > predict.nlme(area3.pen.nlme) does not produce an error. area3.pen.nlme was created with: > area3.pen.nlme <- nlme(area ~ SSlogis(day, Asym, xmid, scal),

Dear Mixed Effect Friends, Somehow, R(1021, Windows) seem to run differently from S Plus: The soybean example from Pinheiro/Bates on page 290 fails in R. (Soybean1 is Soybean with the NA and "critical" case removed. Same procedure with full Soybean). > fm1Soy.lis<-nlsList(weight~SSlogis(Time,Asym,xmid,scal),data=Soybean1) > fm1Soy.nlme<-nlme(fm1Soy.lis) Error: Singularity

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

I am trying to follow an example in Pineiro & Bates's book library(nlme) data(Soybean) soy.lis<-nlsList(weight~SSlogis(Time,Asym,xmid,scal),data=Soybean) soy.nlme<-nlme(soy.lis) Error: Calloc could not allocate (151974496 of 8) memory This is not a large problem-- only 412 observations. I am using R-1.2.3 with automatic memory allocation. Does this message mean that I need to run

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

Hello, I am trying to fit a nlme (non linear mixed effect). I am using the SelfStart function SSlogis. However the data in my hand contains few observations per subject (4 or less), so the nlsList doesn't work... In this case I should fixe initial parameter estimates. I remark that values of initial estimates have a greater effect on the model fit (i.e. loglikelihood, AIC and also on

deriv seems to have problems with a minus-sign before a bracket. Below are four examples of the same function, the top one is wrong, all others are correct (hopefully). Rest of expression not shown, it is the same for all versions. _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 3.0 year 2001 month 06 day 22 language R

Hi R help, I am trying to determine how nls() generates a function based on the self-starting SSlogis and what the formula for the function would be. I've scoured the help site, and other literature to try and figure this out but I still am unsure if I am correct in what I am coming up with. ************************************************************************** dat <-

Hello all. I was wondering if there is a way to hold constant the fixed effects correlation structure across multiple groups? For example, I have two groups and I fit a three parameter logistic growth curve where the fixed effects are free to vary across the groups. I'll paste in the code as a concrete example: > Result.NLME <- nlme(Score ~ SSlogis(Time, Asym, xmid, scal), +