similar to: Likelihood returning inf values to optim(L-BFGS-B) other options?

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Dear all, Has someone implemented in R (or any other language) Knol DL, ten Berge JMF. Least-squares approximation of an improper correlation matrix by a proper one. Psychometrika, 1989, 54, 53-61. or any other similar algorithm? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel Background: I want to factanal() matrices of polychoric correlations which have negative eigenvalue. I coded Highham 2002

dear all. Would someone be kind and willing to explain the code below for a person who has never used R? ( that is if one has enough time and inclination) It implements gillepsie's stochastic algorithm for Lotka Volterra model. What would help me tremendously is to see the breakdown of the line by line code into plain english. thanks for any insights or other comments. sean

R 2.7.2 PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11 library mice 1.13.1 I try to use mice for multivariate data imputation. My variables are numeric, factors, count data, ordered factors. First I created a vector for the methods to use with each variable ImpMethMice<-c(rep("logreg", 62), rep("polyreg",1), rep("norm",12), rep("polyreg",12)) next step was

Hi I'm trying to replicate Smith et al.'s (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1216.abstract) findings by fitting their Gompertz and logistic models to their data (given in their supplement). I'm doing this as I want to then apply the equations to my own data. Try as a might, I can't quite replicate them. Any thoughts why are much appreciated. I've tried contacting the

Hello, A couple of ideas... Im not clear on your whole problem however... Consider making use of the lgamma function, which returns the natural log of the gamma function. This may help. The gamma function gets awfully, big very fast. Also multivariable likelihoods can be bumpy like a mountain range, with minor peaks and valleys. It is possible that your likelihood has such a shape. Maybe

Hi, I realized that when I have irregular series to feed into lineChart, the interval of each point in the chart does not seem to take care of irregular time interval I specified in my input xts time series. But rather, lineChart seems to take each point as equal spaced time series. For example, I have the following code: library(quantmod) options(digits.sec=3) t0 <-

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I have a dataframe that contains time values in the form of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm i.e. 2010-07-14 13:00. When I convert this to numeric via tvec <- as.numeric(Time) I get a number that is in seconds. So far so good. When I then divide the numeric value by the number of seconds in a day eg tvec/(60*60*24) I only get integer values and not fraction of a day which is what I want. What do I need to

> > >What do you recommend for keeping track of user >activities? For preserving bash histories I followed >these recommendations: > >http://www.defcon1.org/secure-command.html > Interesting reading but, as others have noted, of limited use. Keystroke logging can be disabled by - as others have noted - either spawning another (perhaps different) shell, using a remote

Dear R-users I am trying to "vectorize" a function so that it can handle two vectors of inputs. I want the function to use phi (a function), k[1] and t[1] for the first price, and so on for the second, third and fourth price. I tried to do the mapply, but I dont know how to specify to R what input I want to be vectors (k and t)(see in the bottom what I tried). I have read the help file,

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Dear kind R-experts. Does anybody have an experience to use optim function? If yes, what is the main difference between two method "BFGS" vs "L-BFGS-B"? I used "BFGS" method and got what I wanted. But when I used "L-BFGS-B" the error message said that "L-BFGS-B needs finite values of fn". So that means "BFGS" method can handle even if fn

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the effective differences between BFGS and L-BFGS-B are, besides the obvious that L-BFGS-B should be using a lot less memory, and the user can provide box constraints. 1) Why would you ever want to use BFGS, if L-BFGS-B does the same thing but use less memory? 2) If i'm optimizing with respect to a variable x that must be non-negative, a common approach

The the use of optim with the L-BFGS-B method for the following simple function gives erroneous results. Any help appreciated! Best, Bob Reilly # Code: V=function(p){ p1=p[1];p2=p[2] y=p1*p2-.4*(p1+p2) return(-y)} p=c(.2,.2) # p=c(.8,.8) max=optim(p,V,method = "L-BFGS-B",lower=c(0,0),upper=c(1,1)) max1=optim(max$par,V,method = "L-BFGS-B",lower=c(0,0),upper=c(1,1))

>>>>> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> >>>>> on Sat, 8 Oct 2016 18:03:43 -0500 writes: [.............] > 2. It would be interesting to know if the > current algorithm behind optim and optimx with > method='L-BFGS-B' incorporates Morales and Nocedal (2011) > 'Remark on ?Algorithm 778:

Hi, When using method L-BFGS-B along with a parscale argument, should the lower and upper bounds provided be on the scaled or unscaled values? Thanks. Cheers, -- Seb

Hi Spencer: See the link below about L-BFGS-B below because I had problems with it a good while back (and I think the link description is the cause but I can't prove it ) so eventually I moved to the Rvmmin(b) package. It's a package but really an algorithm. Rvmmin(b) uses a variable-metric algorithm similar to that of L-BFGS-B but without the problem below. It's not surprisingly a

Hi all! I'm running some simulations and I need to estimate some paramaters with optim( ), in some cases optim stops with the next message: "L-BFGS-B needs finite values of 'fn' " I would like to know how to include and "if" condition when this happen, could it be something like: myfun <- optim(....) # run my function

On 02/05/2019 21:35, Florian Gerber wrote: > Dear all, > > when using optim() for a function that uses the parent environment, I > see the following unexpected behavior: > > makeFn <- function(){ > ??? xx <- ret <- NA > ??? fn <- function(x){ > ?????? if(!is.na(xx) && x==xx){ > ?????????? cat("x=", xx, ", ret=", ret, "