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Hi, I am new to R. I don't have strong background of statistics. I am a student of Geotechnical Engineering. I tried to run a nonlinear regression for a three-variable function, that is N = f(CSR, ev) # N is a function of CSR and ev, and N = CSR/(A +B*CSR), wherer (A,B) are function of ev. N, CSR and ev are observed in the experiments. Following is my R script. rm(list=ls())

Hello, I'm having problems creating and using a selfStart model with nlme. Briefly, I've defined the model, a selfStart object, and then combined them to make a selfStart.default model. If I apply getInitial to the selfStart model, I get results. However, if I try usint it with nls or nlsList, these routines complain about a lack of initial conditions. If someone could point out

Hi Everyone, I posted this a couple of weeks ago with no responses. My interface (via gmane) seemed a bit flakey at the time, so I'm venturing to repost with some additional information. I'm trying to write selfStart non-linear models for use with nls. In these models some combinations of parameter values are illegal; the function value is undefined. That's OK when calling the

Hi, I am a non-expert user of R. I am essaying the fit of two different functions to my data, but I receive two different error messages. I suppose I have two different problems here... But, of which nature? In the first instance I did try with some different starting values for the parameters, but without success. If anyone could suggest a sensible way to proceed to solve these I would be

Hello, I am doing several self-starting growth functions for using with nls(). When I list the self-starting functions included in nls library, for instance, SSlogis, there is: > SSlogis function (input, Asym, xmid, scal) ... <environment: 03476D20> attr(,"class") [1] "selfStart" What is this <environment: 03476D20> instruction? By using deriv() and then

Greets, I'm trying to learn to use nls and was running the example code for an exponential model: > x <- -(1:100)/10 > y <- 100 + 10 * exp(x / 2) + rnorm(x)/10 > nlmod <- nls(y ~ Const + A * exp(B * x)) Error in B * x : non-numeric argument to binary operator In addition: Warning message: In nls(y ~ Const + A * exp(B * x)) : No starting values specified for some

Hi All, Another nls related problem (for background, I'm migrating a complicated modelling package from S-plus to R). Below I've reduced this to the minimum necessary to demonstrate my problem (I think); the real situation is more complicated. Two similar selfStart functions, ssA and ssB. The 'initial' function for ssB modifies its arguments a little and then calls getInital

Hi, I am trying to use F test or Chi-square test to test if 2 5-parameter (A, B, xmid, scal and H) logistic curves are parallel based on residual sum of squares. What's usually done is to first fit the 2 curves using a constraint (or global) model where all parameters are kept the same except for "xmid"; then fit 2 independent curves using unconstraint models where all 5 parameters

I'm wondering whether AIC scores extracted from nls() objects using AIC() are based on the correct number of estimated parameters. Using the example under nls() documentation: > data( DNase ) > DNase1 <- DNase[ DNase$Run == 1, ] > ## using a selfStart model > fm1DNase1 <- nls( density ~ SSlogis( log(conc), Asym, xmid, scal ), DNase1 ) Using AIC() function: >

Dear R-help, Here's a simple example of nonlinear curve fitting where nls seems to get the answer wrong on a very simple exponential fit (my R version 2.7.2). Look at this code below for a very basic curve fit using nls to fit to (a) a logarithmic and (b) an exponential curve. I did the fits using self-start functions and I compared the results with a more simple fit using a straight lm()

I'm trying to fit a Gompertz sigmoid as follows: x <- c(15, 16, 17, 18, 19) # arbitrary example data here; y <- c(0.1, 1.8, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9) # actual data is similar gm <- nls(y ~ a+b*exp(-exp(-c*(x-d))), start=c(a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?)) I have been unable to properly set the starting value '?'s. All of my guesses yield either a "singular gradient" error if they

Hi Everyone, I'd omitted the non-optional 'parameters' argument to selfStart. Making this change to SSbatch gives the same (successful) result from the two calls to nls. SSbatch<-selfStart( model=function(Batch, Coeffs) { Coeffs[Batch] } ,initial=function(mCall, data, LHS) { # Estimate coefficients as mean of each batch xy <- sortedXyData(mCall[["Batch"]],

Hi Everyone, I seek guidance to avoid wasting a lot of time and doing things badly. Several times I've solved my problems, only to find that my solutions were clumsy and not robust. (see "nested" getInitial calls; variable scoping problems: Solved?? http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/139943.html for one truly horrible approach). I'm sure that I'm not the

Hi All, I've hit a problem using nls. I think it may be a restriction in the applicability of nls and I may have found a fix, but I've been wrong before. This example is simplified to the essentials. My real application is much more complicated. Take a function of matrix 'x' with additional arguments: matrix 'aMat' whose values are _not_ to be determined by nls vector

Hi everyone, I thought that for a selfStart function, these two should be exactly equivalent > nls(Aform, DF) > nls(Aform, DF, start=getInitial(Aform, DF)) but in this example that is not the case in R (although it is in S-plus V6.2) ------------------------------ SSbatch<-selfStart( model=function(Batch, Coeffs) { Coeffs[Batch] } ,initial=function(mCall, data, LHS) { # Estimate

Dear listers, I am trying to fit a model using nlsList() using alternately a SSfol() selfstart function or its developped equivalent formulae. This preliminary trial works well mydata<-groupedData(Conc~Tps|Organ,data=mydata) mymod1<-nls(Conc~SSfol(Dose,Tps,lKe,lKa,lCl),data=mydata) as well as a developped form: mymod2<-nls(Conc~Dose * exp(lKe+lKa-lCl) *

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to write selfStart non-linear models for use with nls. In these models some combinations of parameter values are illegal; the function value is undefined. That's OK when calling the function directly [e.g. SSmodel(x, pars...)]; I return an appropriate non-value such as NA or Inf. However, when called from nls [e.g. nls(y~SSmodel(x, pars...), ...)] those

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,

Hello, I'm trying to adjust a non linear model in which the biological response variable (ratio of germinated fungus spores) is dependent on 2 covariates (temperature and time). The response to temperature is modeled by a kind of beta function with 2 parameters (optimal and maximum temperatures) and the time function is a 2-parameter Weibull. Adjustments with nls or gnls work, but I need to

Hi, I have great problems with my work in R. I look for to model the growth of fish. I have "Longitudinal data", a serie of repeated measures for each individual. Using the corresponding packages "nlme" in R. I treat to fit to the data different growth functions, wich were entered by me. Unfortunately for no it was arrived at the convergence, several error messages appeared. I