[R] An error in fitting a non linear regression

[Saeed Ahmadi]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply and suggestions.

I have two questions?
1) If I want to use log, it seems that I have to take log from both sides of
the model which will lead to lm(log(q)~log(-depth)). What is tehdifference
between this syntax and lm(log(q) ~ I(-depth))?

2) How can I calculate the R-squared of a fitted non linear model?

Regards
Saeed


Christian Ritz-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi Saeed,
> 
> one approach is to try out several initial value combinations for a and b.
> 
> It often helps to find initial values of the same order of magnitude and
> of the same sign
> as the final estimates.
> 
> To get such initial values, you could linearize the model:
> 
> lm(log(q) ~ I(-depth))
> 
> 
> and supply the estimated coefficients from the linear regression as
> starting values:
> 
> nreg <- nls(q ~ a*exp(-b*depth), start = list(a = 0.76168, b = -0.08484))
> summary(nreg)
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
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