[R] How to coerce a parameter in nls?

Jianling Fan fanjianling at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 18:46:13 CEST 2015


Hello Prof. Nash,

My regression works good now. But I found another problem when I using
nlxb. In the output, the SE, t-stat, and p-value are not available.
Furthermore, I can't extract AIC from the output. The output looks
like below:

Do you have any suggestion for this?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

nlmrt class object: x
residual sumsquares =  0.29371  on  33 observations
    after  9    Jacobian and  10 function evaluations
  name            coeff          SE       tstat      pval
gradient    JSingval
Rm1               1.1162            NA         NA         NA
-3.059e-13       2.745
Rm2              1.56072            NA         NA         NA
1.417e-13        1.76
Rm3              1.09775            NA         NA         NA
-3.179e-13       1.748
Rm4              7.18377            NA         NA         NA
-2.941e-12       1.748
Rm5              1.13562            NA         NA         NA
-3.305e-13       1.076
Rm6                    1  M         NA         NA         NA
0       0.603
d50              22.4803            NA         NA         NA
4.975e-13       0.117
c               -1.64075            NA         NA         NA
4.12e-12   1.908e-17



On 21 September 2015 at 13:38, ProfJCNash <profjcnash at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've not used it for group data, and suspect that the code to generate
> derivatives cannot cope with the bracket syntax. If you can rewrite the
> equation without the brackets, you could get the derivatives and solve that
> way. This will probably mean having a "translation" routine to glue things
> together.
>
> JN
>
>
> On 15-09-21 12:22 PM, Jianling Fan 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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