[R] How to coerce a parameter in nls?

ProfJCNash profjcnash at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 21:40:00 CEST 2015


Apologies for replying and overlapping Gabor's contribution, which 
actually did the work!

Best, JN

On 15-09-21 01:03 PM, Jianling Fan wrote:
> Thanks Gabor,
>
>   That works good to rewrite the express the formula!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jianling
>
> On 21 September 2015 at 10:43, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Express the formula in terms of simple operations like this:
>>
>> # add 0/1 columns ref.1, ref.2, ..., ref.6
>> dproot2 <- do.call(data.frame, transform(dproot, ref = outer(dproot$ref,
>> seq(6), "==") + 0))
>>
>> # now express the formula in terms of the new columns
>> library(nlmrt)
>> fitdp1<-nlxb(den ~ (Rm1 * ref.1 + Rm2 * ref.2 + Rm3 * ref.3 + Rm4 * ref.4 +
>> Rm5 * ref.5 + Rm6 * ref.6)/(1+(depth/d50)^c),
>>           data = dproot2,
>>           start = c(Rm1=1.01, Rm2=1.01, Rm3=1.01, Rm4=6.65, Rm5=1.01, Rm6=1,
>> d50=20, c=-1),
>>           masked = "Rm6")
>>
>> where we used this input:
>>
>> Lines <- "   depth       den ref
>> 1     20 0.5730000   1
>> 2     40 0.7800000   1
>> 3     60 0.9470000   1
>> 4     80 0.9900000   1
>> 5    100 1.0000000   1
>> 6     10 0.6000000   2
>> 7     20 0.8200000   2
>> 8     30 0.9300000   2
>> 9     40 1.0000000   2
>> 10    20 0.4800000   3
>> 11    40 0.7340000   3
>> 12    60 0.9610000   3
>> 13    80 0.9980000   3
>> 14   100 1.0000000   3
>> 15    20 3.2083491   4
>> 16    40 4.9683383   4
>> 17    60 6.2381133   4
>> 18    80 6.5322348   4
>> 19   100 6.5780660   4
>> 20   120 6.6032064   4
>> 21    20 0.6140000   5
>> 22    40 0.8270000   5
>> 23    60 0.9500000   5
>> 24    80 0.9950000   5
>> 25   100 1.0000000   5
>> 26    20 0.4345774   6
>> 27    40 0.6654726   6
>> 28    60 0.8480684   6
>> 29    80 0.9268951   6
>> 30   100 0.9723207   6
>> 31   120 0.9939966   6
>> 32   140 0.9992400   6"
>>
>> dproot <- read.table(text = Lines, header = TRUE)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jianling Fan <fanjianling at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Prof. Nash,
>>>
>>> Sorry for late reply. I am learning and trying to use your nlmrt
>>> package since I got your email. It works good to mask a parameter in
>>> regression but seems does work for my equation. I think the problem is
>>> that the parameter I want to mask is a group-specific parameter and I
>>> have a "[]" syntax in my equation. However, I don't have your 2014
>>> book on hand and couldn't find it in our library. So I am wondering if
>>> nlxb works for group data?
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> following is my code and I got a error form it.
>>>
>>>> fitdp1<-nlxb(den~Rm[ref]/(1+(depth/d50)^c),data=dproot,
>>>                  + start =c(Rm1=1.01, Rm2=1.01, Rm3=1.01, Rm4=6.65,
>>> Rm5=1.01, Rm6=1, d50=20, c=-1),
>>>                  + masked=c("Rm6"))
>>>
>>> Error in deriv.default(parse(text = resexp), names(start)) :
>>>    Function '`[`' is not in the derivatives table
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Jianling
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 September 2015 at 12:56, ProfJCNash <profjcnash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I posted a suggestion to use nlmrt package (function nlxb to be
>>>> precise),
>>>> which has masked (fixed) parameters. Examples in my 2014 book on
>>>> Nonlinear
>>>> parameter optimization with R tools. However, I'm travelling just now,
>>>> or
>>>> would consider giving this a try.
>>>>
>>>> JN
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15-09-20 01:19 PM, Jianling Fan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> no, I am doing a regression with 6 group data with 2 shared parameters
>>>>> and 1 different parameter for each group data. the parameter I want to
>>>>> coerce is for one group. I don't know how to do it. Any suggestion?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19 September 2015 at 13:33, Jeff Newmiller
>>>>> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why not rewrite the function so that value is not a parameter?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> On September 18, 2015 9:54:54 PM PDT, Jianling Fan
>>>>>> <fanjianling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello, everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am using a nls regression with 6 groups data. I am trying to coerce
>>>>>>> a parameter to 1 by using a upper and lower statement. but I always
>>>>>>> get an error like below:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Error in ifelse(internalPars < upper, 1, -1) :
>>>>>>>    (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> does anyone know how to fix it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks in advance!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My code is below:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> dproot
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     depth       den ref
>>>>>>> 1     20 0.5730000   1
>>>>>>> 2     40 0.7800000   1
>>>>>>> 3     60 0.9470000   1
>>>>>>> 4     80 0.9900000   1
>>>>>>> 5    100 1.0000000   1
>>>>>>> 6     10 0.6000000   2
>>>>>>> 7     20 0.8200000   2
>>>>>>> 8     30 0.9300000   2
>>>>>>> 9     40 1.0000000   2
>>>>>>> 10    20 0.4800000   3
>>>>>>> 11    40 0.7340000   3
>>>>>>> 12    60 0.9610000   3
>>>>>>> 13    80 0.9980000   3
>>>>>>> 14   100 1.0000000   3
>>>>>>> 15    20 3.2083491   4
>>>>>>> 16    40 4.9683383   4
>>>>>>> 17    60 6.2381133   4
>>>>>>> 18    80 6.5322348   4
>>>>>>> 19   100 6.5780660   4
>>>>>>> 20   120 6.6032064   4
>>>>>>> 21    20 0.6140000   5
>>>>>>> 22    40 0.8270000   5
>>>>>>> 23    60 0.9500000   5
>>>>>>> 24    80 0.9950000   5
>>>>>>> 25   100 1.0000000   5
>>>>>>> 26    20 0.4345774   6
>>>>>>> 27    40 0.6654726   6
>>>>>>> 28    60 0.8480684   6
>>>>>>> 29    80 0.9268951   6
>>>>>>> 30   100 0.9723207   6
>>>>>>> 31   120 0.9939966   6
>>>>>>> 32   140 0.9992400   6
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fitdp<-nls(den~Rm[ref]/(1+(depth/d50)^c),data=dproot,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> + start = list(Rm=c(1.01, 1.01, 1.01, 6.65,1.01,1), d50=20, c=-1))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> summary(fitdp)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Formula: den ~ Rm[ref]/(1 + (depth/d50)^c)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Parameters:
>>>>>>>      Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
>>>>>>> Rm1  1.12560    0.07156   15.73 3.84e-14 ***
>>>>>>> Rm2  1.57643    0.11722   13.45 1.14e-12 ***
>>>>>>> Rm3  1.10697    0.07130   15.53 5.11e-14 ***
>>>>>>> Rm4  7.23925    0.20788   34.83  < 2e-16 ***
>>>>>>> Rm5  1.14516    0.07184   15.94 2.87e-14 ***
>>>>>>> Rm6  1.03658    0.05664   18.30 1.33e-15 ***
>>>>>>> d50 22.69426    1.03855   21.85  < 2e-16 ***
>>>>>>> c   -1.59796    0.15589  -10.25 3.02e-10 ***
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Signif. codes:  0 ?**?0.001 ?*?0.01 ??0.05 ??0.1 ??1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Residual standard error: 0.1094 on 24 degrees of freedom
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Number of iterations to convergence: 8
>>>>>>> Achieved convergence tolerance: 9.374e-06
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fitdp1<-nls(den~Rm[ref]/(1+(depth/d50)^c),data=dproot,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> algorithm="port",
>>>>>>> + start = list(Rm=c(1.01, 1.01, 1.01, 6.65, 1.01, 1), d50=20, c=-1),
>>>>>>> + lower = list(Rm=c(1.01, 1.01, 1.01, 6.65, 1.01, 1), d50=20, c=-1),
>>>>>>> + upper = list(Rm=c(2.1, 2.2, 2.12, 12.5, 2.3, 1), d50=50, c=1))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Error in ifelse(internalPars < upper, 1, -1) :
>>>>>>>    (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'
>>>>>>>
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