Message-ID: <6rsnmoq02h.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>
Date: 2001-01-12T15:09:26Z
From: Douglas Bates
Subject: Confidence Limits for Non-Linear Regression
In-Reply-To: Prof Brian D Ripley's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 07:50:37 +0000 (GMT)"
Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> I had thought if you turn tracing on, you would see the area in parameter
> space where profile.nls gets in trouble, but profiling seems to turn it
> off. You could try increasing maxiter in nls.control.
It works if trace = TRUE in the original call to nls that creates the
object being profiled. Try
example(Bennett5, package = "NISTnls")
pr2 <- profile(fm2)
Dieter: If you fitting a conventional three parameter logistic model
or a four parameter model you may want to try the self-starting model
functions in the nls package (SSlogis or SSfpl). Those functions use
a parameterization that has proven to be very stable. Often the
difficulties in assessing the variability in parameter estimates is
due to a poorly chosen parameterization for the model.
If you would be willing to send me one of the problematic data sets I
could try to assess what is going wrong for you.
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