On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Benedikt Gehr
<benedikt.gehr <at> ieu.uzh.ch> wrote:
now I feel very silly! I swear I was trying this for a long time and it
didn't work. Now that I closed R and restarted it it works also on my
machine.
So is the only problem that my model is overparametrized with the data I
have?
however shouldn't it be possible to fit an nls to these data?
(Obviously) no.
I suggest you do a little reading up on optimization.
Over-parameterization creates high dimensional ridges.