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Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in "k": V1 V2 [1,] 0 0.367 [2,] 85 0.296 [3,] 122 0.260 [4,] 192 0.244 [5,] 275 0.175 [6,] 421 0.140 [7,] 603 0.093 [8,] 831 0.068 [9,] 1140 0.043 With the nls()-function i want to fit following formula whereas a,b, and c are variables: y~1/(a*x^2+b*x+c) With the standardalgorithm

Dear all, I would like to use the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for non-linear least-squares regression using function nls.lm. Can anybody help me to find a a way to compute confidence intervals on the fitted parameters as it is possible for nls (using confint.nls, which does not work for nls.lm)? Thank you for your help Michael

Hi All, Is the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm available in R. This method combines the steepest descent algorithm and Newton's method. Thanks in Advance, Dermot MacSweeney. ************************************************************** Dermot MacSweeney NMRC, Email: dsweeney at nmrc.ucc.ie Lee Maltings, Tel: +353 21 904178 Prospect Row, Fax: +353 21 270271 Cork, WWW:

Hello, I want to fit some non linear models with the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. It doesn''t seem to exist any function to do this in R ( well, maybe one does, but I''m a new user, and the only documentation I have is "An introduction to R"). I''d like to know if this function exists, maybe throught an additionnal package. I''d also like to know if if

Hi, I have a problem fitting the following Weibull Model to a set of data. The model is this one: a-b*exp(-c*x^d) If I fitted the model with CurveExpert I can find a very nice set of coefficients which create a curve very close to my data, but when I use the nls.lm function in R I can't obtain the same result. My data are these: X Y 15 13 50 13 75 9 90 4 With the commercial

Hi! I'm translating some code from Matlab to R and I found a problem. I need to translate Matlab's function 'lsqnonlin' (http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/matlab/toolbox/optim/lsqnonlin.html) into R, and at the beginning I thought it would be the same as R's 'optim'. But then I looked at the definition of 'lsqnonlin' and I don't quite see how to make

Dear Mr Graves, Thank you very much for your response. Nobody else from this mailing list ventured to reply to me for the two weeks since I posted my question. "nlminb" and "optim" are just optimization procedures. What I need is not just optimization, but a nonlinear CURVE FITTING procedure. If there is some way to perform nonlinear curve fitting with the

Dear All, In the past I have often used minpack (http://bit.ly/zXVls3) relying on the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to perform non-linear fittings. However, I have always dealt with a function of a single variable. Is there any difference if the function depends on two variables? To fix the ideas, please consider the function f(R,N)=(a/(log(2*N))+b)*R+c*N^d, where a,b,c,d are fit parameters. For

Hello! I am running R-2.3.1-i386-1 on Slackware Linux 10.2. I am a former matlab user, moving to R. In matlab, via the cftool, I performed nonlinear curve fitting using the method "nonlinear least squares" with the "Trust-Region" algorithm and not using robust fitting. Is it possible to perform the same analysis in R? I read quite a lot of R documentation, but I could not find

The package minpack.lm allows nonlinear regression problems to be addressed with a modification of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm based on the implementation of 'lmder' and 'lmdif' in MINPACK. Version 1.0-8 of the package is now available on CRAN. Changes in version 1.0-8 include: o possibility to obtain standard error estimates on the parameters via new methods for

The package minpack.lm allows nonlinear regression problems to be addressed with a modification of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm based on the implementation of 'lmder' and 'lmdif' in MINPACK. Version 1.0-8 of the package is now available on CRAN. Changes in version 1.0-8 include: o possibility to obtain standard error estimates on the parameters via new methods for

In the course of revising a paper I have had occasion to attempt to maximize a rather complicated log likelihood using the function nlm(). This is at the demand of a referee who claims that this will work better than my proposed use of a home- grown implementation of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. I have run into serious hiccups in attempting to apply nlm(). If I provide gradient and

I'm wondering what packages exist to implement nonlinear least squares regression in R other than 'nls'. Are there packages which implement methods to estimate the optimum values of the parameters which do not use the Gauss-Newton algorithm e.g. use Nelder Mead. In particular, I'd be interested where this is done where the methods of the plinear algorithm are also used (the initial

Dear All, I'd like to fit a "kind" of logistic model to small data-set using nonlinear least-squares regression. A transcript of R-script are reproduced below. Estimated B and T (the model's coeff, herein B=-8,50 and T=5,46) seem appropriate (at least visually) but are quite diff from those obtained w/ SPSS (Levenberg-Marquardt): B=-19,56 and T=2,37. Am I doing something wrong in

Dear r-Help readers, 1) Is there support for NSUR in some R package yet? 2) Is there a general function of applying the Gauss-Newton or Marquard method, in which the function of calculating the partial derivatives can be specified by the user? Contemporaneously correlated non-linear models (NSUR) is a method to fit a system of non-linear equations. I want to use to fit several non-linear

Hola a todos, Simplemente comentar que me tengo encontrado con muchos problemas de optimización. Mi recomendación general, en el caso multidimensional y si el tiempo de computación es importante, sería buscar un algoritmo diseñado para el tipo de problema (evitar los algoritmos más generales tipo optim si puede haber problemas de mínimos locales). Algunos casos que tengo resuelto con R

Hello! I am running R-2.3.1-i386-1 on Slackware Linux 10.2. I am a former matlab user, moving to R. In matlab, via the cftool, I performed nonlinear curve fitting using the method "nonlinear least squares" with the "Trust-Region" algorithm and not using robust fitting. Is it possible to perform the same analysis in R? I read quite a lot of R documentation, but I could not

Hi,all: I met a problem of nls. My data: x y 60 0.8 80 6.5 100 20.5 120 45.9 I want to fit exp curve of data. My code: > nls(y ~ exp(a + b*x)+d,start=list(a=0,b=0,d=1)) Error in nlsModel(formula, mf, start, wts) : singular gradient matrix at initial parameter estimates I can't find out the reason for the error. Any suggesions are welcome. Many thanks. [[alternative HTML

Hello guys. I've built and uploaded to CRAN an R interface to MINPACK Fortran library, which solves non-linear least squares problem by modification of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The package includes one R function, which passes all the necessary control parameters to the appropriate Fortran functions. The package location is

Hello guys. I've built and uploaded to CRAN an R interface to MINPACK Fortran library, which solves non-linear least squares problem by modification of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The package includes one R function, which passes all the necessary control parameters to the appropriate Fortran functions. The package location is