[R] nonlinear least square fit of a known function

John Fox jfox at mcmaster.ca
Fri Oct 25 02:31:44 CEST 2002


Dear Andy and Dave,

The nls documentation indicates that weights aren't (yet) implemented.

Regards,
  John

At 04:46 PM 10/24/2002 -0500, apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

>Try
>
> > library(nls)
> > ?nls
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andy
>
>__________________________________
>Andy Jaworski
>Engineering Systems Technology Center
>3M Center, 518-1-01
>St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
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>
>
>Dear R community,
>
>I have data of x versus y and I know exactly what kind
>of function to fit the data.  I just need to fit the
>parameters with weighted nonlinear least square.
>
>I am sure R can do this easily, but where do I start?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance!!   Dave
>
>__________________________________________________
>

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