[Rd] nonlinear least square

[Evans Otieno Ochiaga]

Hi to all,

Is there a way we can fit a non linear model to a data using non linear
least square method without necessarily initialising the parameters of the
model. I find it hard to get the initial value of the parameter. Below is a
sample of the code I have.





*nachman<-nls(OARmedium$OCCUPANCY~1exp(-alpha*OARmedium$MEAN^beta),start=list(alpha=0.2,beta=0.1),data=OARmedium)summary(nachman)*
Thanks,


*Evans Ochiaga*

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