similar to: parameterization of gnls model

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

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

Hello all (especially MCLUS users). I'm trying to make use of the MCLUST package by C. Fraley and A. Raftery. My problem is trying to figure out how the (model) identifier (e.g, EII, VII, VVI, etc.) relates to the covariance matrix. The parameterization of the covariance matrix makes use of the method of decomposition in Banfield and Rraftery (1993) and Fraley and Raftery (2002) where

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 R-devel members, While writing a new correlation structure similar to 'corCompSymm' and intended to be used with 'gnls', I got puzzled with the 'Initialize' method. Using 'Initialize' before 'gnls' may be regarded as a mean to set an initial value for the corStruct parameter. However 'gnls' does not work properly with a

Dear R-helpers; While using gnls() to fit a function > Gbht0t.gnls <- gnls(h2 ~ Rht(b0, b1, b2, h1,t1, t2), data=gbht10, + params=list(b0 + b1 + b2 ~ Sisp -1), start=c(strssb0,strssb1,strssb2)) I encountered an error: "Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, extranames, : invalid variable type " Rht is a defined function to be

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

Hi, I've made a selfStart function for use with gnls and the following piece of code works nicely: check1 <- gnls(y ~ spot.shape.fct(xcord, ycord, background, spotintensity, rho, sigma, delta, mux, muy), start=getInitial(y ~ spot.shape.fct(xcord, ycord, background, spotintensity, rho,

Hi, I've been trying to work with the gnls() function in the "nlme" package. My decision to use gnls() was so that I could fit varPower and such to some of the data. However, in working with a small dataset, I've found that the results given by gnls() don't seem to make any sense and they differ substantially from those produced by nls(). I suspect that I am just

 Dear R-helpers, I'm a new R-user and I was trying to gain some experience with the GNLS function of the NLME package.  This is an extract from my dataset (it's a 432x6 data.frame) called "input", in the first column I have the values that I need to fit, while the remaining columns are input variables for the theoretical model, the function "mymodel" (which returns a

>>>>> "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>

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

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 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

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 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

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:

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

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 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