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Dear R users, I have two nonlinear equations, f1(x1,x2)=0 and f2(x1,x2)=0. I try to use optim command by minimize f1^2+f2^2 to find x1 and x2. I found the optimal solution changes when I change initial values. How to solve this? BTW, I also try to use grid searching. But I have no information on ranges of x1 and x2, respectively. Any suggestion to solve this question? Thanks, Kate

Hi. I am trying to analyze with BRugs the Box-Tiao variance components example in WinBUGS. The output from BRugs, mean sd MC_error val2.5pc median val97.5pc start sample sigma2.btw 681.9 1161 10.89 0.7016 253.8 4232 25001 100000 sigma2.with 4266.0 1246 4.92 2480.0000 4057.0 7262 25001 100000 doesn't match the output from WinBUGS, node mean

Hello, I would like to use mapply to avoid using a loop but for some reason, I can't seem to get it to work. I've included copies of my code below. The first set of code uses a loop (and it works fine), and the second set of code attempts to use mapply but I get a "subscript out of bounds" error. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Xj, Yj, and Wj are also lists, and s2,

Hi, I am trying to use quantile regression to perform weighted-comparisons of the median across groups. This works most of the time, however I am seeing some odd output in summary(rq()): Call: rq(formula = sand ~ method, tau = 0.5, data = x, weights = area_fraction) Coefficients: Value Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 45.44262 3.64706 12.46007

The background: I'm trying to fit a Poisson-lognormal distrbutuion to some data. This is a way of modelling species abundances: N ~ Pois(lam) log(lam) ~ N(mu, sigma2) The number of individuals are Poisson distributed with an abundance drawn from a log-normal distrbution. To fit this to data, I need to integrate out lam. In principle, I can do it this way: PLN1 <- function(lam, Count,

Another way to avoid the problem is to not redefine variables that are arguments. E.g., > Su3 <- function(u=100, l=u, mu=0.53, sigma2=4.3^2, verbose) { if (verbose) { print(c(u, l, mu)) } uNormalized <- u/sqrt(sigma2) lNormalized <- l/sqrt(sigma2) muNormalized <- mu/sqrt(sigma2) c(uNormalized, lNormalized, muNormalized) } > Su3(verbose=TRUE)

Hi All, This is not really an R question but a statistical one. If someone could either give me the brief explanation or point me to a reference that might help, I'd appreciate it. I want to estimate the mean of a log-normal distribution, given the (log scale normal) parameters mu and sigma squared (sigma2). I understood this should simply be: exp(mu + sigma2) ... but I the following code

Dear Bill, All makes perfect sense (including the late evaluation). I actually discovered the problem by looking at old code which used your proposed solution. Still I find it strange (and, hnestly, I don?t like R?s behavior in this respect), and I am wondering why u is not being copied to L just before u is assigned a new value. Of course, this would require the R interpreter to track all these

Hello, One way of preventing that is to use ?force. Just put force(l) right after the commented out print and before you change 'u'. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Citando Matthias Gondan <matthias-gondan at gmx.de>: > Dear R developers, > > sessionInfo() below > > Please have a look at the following two versions of the same function: > > 1. Intended

Dear R developers, sessionInfo() below Please have a look at the following two versions of the same function: 1. Intended behavior: > Su1 = function(u=100, l=u, mu=0.53, sigma2=4.3^2) + { + print(c(u, l, mu)) # here, l is set to u?s value + u = u/sqrt(sigma2) + l = l/sqrt(sigma2) + mu = mu/sqrt(sigma2) + print(c(u, l, mu)) + } > > Su1() [1] 100.00 100.00 0.53 [1]

Hi everyone, I am looking to do some manual maximum likelihood estimation in R. I have done a lot of work in Stata and so I have been using output comparisons to get a handle on what is happening. I estimated a simple linear model in R with lm() and also my own maximum likelihood program. I then compared the output with Stata. Two things jumped out at me. Firstly, in Stata my coefficient

Dear all, I am stuck on the following problem with integrate(). I have been out of luck using RSiteSearch().. My function is g2<-function(b,theta,xi,yi,sigma2){ xi<-cbind(1,xi) eta<-drop(xi%*%theta) num<-exp((eta + rep(b,length(eta)))*yi) den<- 1 + exp(eta + rep(b,length(eta))) result=(num/den)*exp((-b^2)/sigma2)/sqrt(2*pi*sigma2)

Mathias, If it's any comfort, I appreciated the example; 'expected' behaviour maybe, but a very nice example for staff/student training! S Ellison > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Matthias > Gondan > Sent: 02 September 2017 18:22 > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] Strange lazy evaluation of

hello all happy new year and hope you r having a good holiday. i would like to calculate the expectation of a particular random variable and would like to approximate it using a number of the functions contained in R. decided to do some experimentation on a trivial example. example ======== suppose x(i)~N(0,s2) where s2 = the variance the prior for s2 = p(s2)~IG(a,b) so the posterior is

Dear UseRs, I wrote the following function to use MLE. --------------------------------------------- mlog <- function(theta, nx = 1, nz = 1, dt){ beta <- matrix(theta[1:(nx+1)], ncol = 1) delta <- matrix(theta[(nx+2):(nx+nz+1)], ncol = 1) sigma2 <- theta[nx+nz+2] gamma <- theta[nx+nz+3] y <- as.matrix(dt[, 1], ncol = 1) x <- as.matrix(data.frame(1,

Hey all, I am trying to work under a State Space form, but I didn't get the help exactly. Have anyone eles used this functions? I was used to work with S-PLUS, but I have some codes I need to adpt. Thanks alot, Bernardo [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am trying to covert a Winbugs code into R code. Here is the winbugs code model{# model’s likelihoodfor (i in 1:n){time[i] ~ dnorm( mu[i], tau ) # stochastic componenent# link and linear predictormu[i] <- beta0 + beta1 * cases[i] + beta2 * distance[i]}# prior distributionstau ~ dgamma( 0.01, 0.01 )beta0 ~ dnorm( 0.0, 1.0E-4)beta1 ~ dnorm( 0.0, 1.0E-4)beta2 ~ dnorm( 0.0, 1.0E-4)#

Is there an R implementation of a scheme for automatic smoothing parameter selection with loess, e.g., by minimizing one of the AIC/GCV statistics discussed by Hurvich, Simonoff & Tsai (1998)? Below is a function that calculates the relevant values of AICC, AICC1 and GCV--- I think, because I to guess from the names of the components returned in a loess object. I guess I could use

Hi, Does anyone know what the distribution for the product of two correlated normal? Say I have X~N(a, \sigma1^2) and Y~N(b, \sigma2^2), and the \rou(X,Y) is not equal to 0, I want to know the pdf or cdf of XY. Thanks a lot in advance. yu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, A question. When I run gelman.diag and gelman.plot with mcmc lists obtained from MCMCregress, the results are following. > post.R <- MCMCregress(Size~Age+Status, data = data, burnin = 5000, mcmc = 100000, + thin = 10, verbose = FALSE, beta.start = NA, sigma2.start = NA, + b0 = 0, B0 = 0, nu = 0.001, delta = 0.001) > post1.R <- MCMCregress(Size~Age+Status, data