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Hi there! I´m a noob when it comes to R and I´m using it to run statisc analysis. With the code for ARIMA below I´m getting this error: Error in solve.default(res$hessian * n.used) :Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular The code is: > s.ts <- ts(x[,7], start = 2004, fre=12) > get.best.arima <- function (x.ts, maxord=c(1,1,1,1,1,1)) + { + best.aic <- 1e8 + n <-

Dear R group, I have to solve a hessian matrix 40*40, called M, in order to obtain the standart deviations of estimators. When I use the function solve(M), I have the following error message: "Error in solve.default(M) : Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular" Do you know an alternative approach which could succeed? I have found some information about the function

Hello everyone, I'm trying to estimate the parameters of the returns series attached using the GARCH code below, but I get the following error message: Error in solve.default(Hessian) : system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = 0 Error in diag(solve(Hessian)) : error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 'diag' Can

I've been trying to figure out how to build a list of terms from a nonlinear model (terms() returns a error). I need to compute and evaluate the partial derivatives (Jacobian) for each equaiton in a set of equations. For example: > eqn <- q ~ s0 + s1 * p + s2 * f + s3 * a > sv2 <- c(d0=3,d1=4.234,d2=4,s0=-2.123,s1=0.234,s2=2.123,s3=4.234) > names( sv2 ) [1] "d0"

Hello! Looking on how people use optim to get MLE I also noticed that one can use returned Hessian to get corresponding standard errors i.e. something like result <- optim(<< snip >>, hessian=T) result$par # point estimates vc <- solve(result$hessian) # var-cov matrix se <- sqrt(diag(vc)) # standard errors What is actually Hessian representing here?

Hello all useRs, I am using the OPTIM function with particular interest in the method L-BFGS-B, because it is a box-constraint method. I have interest in the errors estimates too. I make: s.e. <- sqrt( diag( solve( optim(...,method='L-BFGS-B', hessian=TRUE)$hessian ))) but in help say: "Note that this is the Hessian of the unconstrained problem even if the box constraints

Dear R experts! I try to minimize a function with external C fitting function. I get the hessian matrix. Here it is: [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1.8816631 0 0.8859803 0 [2,] 0.0000000 0 0.0000000 0 [3,] 0.8859803 0 0.4859983 0 [4,] 0.0000000 0 0.0000000 0 Second and fourth rows/columns have zero values only. That's OK, because that ones related

I am new to 'R' and also new to the concept of a 'Hessian' with non-linear optimization. I would like to avoid going through all of the reference articles given with ?optim as access to a library is not handy. Would someone be able to elighten me on what is in the Hessian matrix if 'hessian = TRUE' with optim? The documentation indicates that this is a numerically

Hi, R developers. when running mle inside a loop I found a nasty behavior. From time to time, my model had a degenerate minimum and the loop just crashed. I tracked it down to "vcov <- if (length(coef)) solve(oout$hessian)" line, being the hessian singular. Note that the minimum reached was good, it just did not make sense to calculate the covariance matrix as the inverse of a

Hi I am trying to recover the hessian of a problem optimised with box-constraints. The problem is that in some cases, my estimates are very close to the boundary, which will make optim(..., hessian=TRUE) or optimHessian() fail, as they do not follow the box-constraints, and hence estimate the function in the unfeasible parameter space. As a simple example (my problem is more complex though,

Dear R-users, In the function constrOptim there is an option to get an approximation to the hessian of the surrogate function R at MLE by declaring hessian=TRUE in the calls to the function optim. I would like to ask if it is advisable to get an approximate hessian for the funcrion f as follows: f''(theta)=R''(theta|theta_k)-B''(theta) where

Hi R-users, I am trying to estimate function parameters using optim(). My count observations follows a Poisson like distribution. The problem is that I wanna express the lambda coefficient, in the passion likelihood function, as a linear function of other covariates (and thus of other coefficients). The codes that I am using (except data frame) are the following (FYI the parameters need to be

Dear helpers, I am using the function "constrOptim" to estimate a model with ML with an inequality constraint using the option method='Nelder-Mead'. When I specify the option: hessian = TRUE I obtain the response: Error in f(theta, ...) : unused argument(s) (hessian = TRUE) I guess the function "constrOptim" does not allow this argument which, on the other hand, is

Dear R experts, In R-intro, under the 'Nonlinear least squares and maximum likelihood models' there are ttwo examples considered how to use 'nlm' function. In 'Least squares' the Standard Errors obtained as follows: After the fitting, out$minimum is the SSE, and out$estimates are the least squares estimates of the parameters. To obtain the approximate standard

Hi, my name is Marcel R. Lopes. My problem is, I made a code to calculate the estimates of a Cox model with random effects. Used to optimize the R command for this. The estimates were calculated correctly, but the Hessian matrix does not have good values. The same thing was done in SAS and gave good results for the Hessian Matrix. Where is the problem in R? As the Hessian is calculated?. How

Hi R-help! I'm trying to understand how R's nlm function updates its estimate of the Hessian matrix. The Dennis/Schnabel book cited in the references presents a number of different ways to do this, and seems to conclude that the positive-definite secant method (BFGS) works best in practice (p201). However, when I run my code through the optim function with the method as "BFGS",

R users; A question about optimization within R. I've been using both optim() and nlminb() to estimate parameters and all seems to be working fine. For context (but without getting into specifics - sorry), I'm working with a problem that is known to have correlated parameters, and parameter estimation can be difficult. I have a question on optim() - I'm using

I've been working on a new package and I have a few questions regarding the behaviour of the nlm function. I've been (for better or worse) using the nlm function to fit a linear model without suppling the hessian or gradient attributes in the objective function. I'm curious as to why the nlm requires 31 iterations (for the linear model), and then it doesn't work when I try to add

Hi, I am working or arima. I think arima uses non-linear optimisation for parameter optimisation. The standard error for parameters are computed from hessian matrix. When I use arima model, how can I see the finial hessian got from non-linear optimisation (BFGS for example). Any help is appreciated. Many thanks. Di [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear All, I am trying to find MLE by using "OPTIM" function. Difficult in differentiating some parameter in my objective function, I would like to use the returned hessian matrix to yield an estimate of Fisher's Information matrix. My question: Since the hessian is calculated by numerical differentiate, is it a reliable estimate? Otherwise I would have to do a lot of work to