[R] nls

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> You problem is x^c for x = 0.  If you intended only c > 1, try a starting 
> value meeting that condition (but it seems that the optimal c is about 
> 0.27 is you increase x slightly).

Surely you mean c > 0.

>  nls(1/y ~ a+b*x^exp(c), start=list(a=1.16122,b=0.01565,c=0))
Nonlinear regression model
  model:  1/y ~ a + b * x^exp(c)
   data:  parent.frame()
         a          b          c
 0.9944025  0.1953168 -1.1495206
 residual sum-of-squares:  0.03303464
>  nls(1/y ~ a+b*x^c, start=list(a=1.16122,b=0.01565,c=exp(-1.1)))
Nonlinear regression model
  model:  1/y ~ a + b * x^c
   data:  parent.frame()
        a         b         c
0.9944026 0.1953165 0.3167891
 residual sum-of-squares:  0.03303464

(but even setting c=exp(-1) triggers the error; there could be cause
for robustifying the nls algorithm)
 
> Why have you used ~~ ?  (Maybe because despite being asked not to, you 
> sent HTML mail?)
> 
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Xiaodong Jin wrote:
> 
> >   Is there anyway to change any y[i] value (i=2,...6) to make following NLS workable? 
> >    
> >   x <- c(0,5,10,15,20,25,30)
> >   y <- c(1.00000,0.82000,0.68000,0.64000,0.66667,0.68667,0.64000)
> >   lm(1/y ~~ x)
> >   nls(1/y ~~ a+b*x^c, start=list(a=1.16122,b=0.01565,c=1), trace=TRUE)
> >    
> >   #0.0920573 :  1.16122 0.01565 1.00000 
> > #Error in numericDeriv(form[[3]], names(ind), env) : 
> > #        Missing value or an infinity produced when evaluating the model
> > 
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