[R] Question about curve fitting...

[Peter Dalgaard]

Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, S.O. Nyangoma wrote:
> 
> >I see that 
> >log(y)=log(k1)+k2*log(x)
> >use lm?
> 
> Thats a nice solution in this instance, but in general how do I get R to
> fit a particular function (formula) and return the parameters?

nls() is your friend.
 

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