Thanks for this reply, However I am interested to know why I need to modify
my function to a=1?
Regards,
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Assume a = 1. If not set b = b/a, etc.
Now use (1) uniroot
f <- function(x) b + c/(1+x) + d/(1+x)^2 - 1 - x
uniroot(f, 0:1)
$root
[1] 0.8392679
$f.root
[1] 3.049818e-05
$iter
[1] 3
$estim.prec
[1] 6.103516e-05
or multiply through by 1+x
and subtract 1 from both sides giving
x = b + c/(1+x) + d/(1+x)^2 - 1
and iterate that.
a <- b <- c <- d <- 1
x <- 0
for(i in 1:25) {
+ x <- b + c/(1+x) + d/(1+x)^2 - 1
+ print(x)
+ }
[1] 2
[1] 0.4444444
[1] 1.171598
[1] 0.6725419
[1] 0.9553676
[1] 0.7729558
[1] 0.8821595
[1] 0.8135892
[1] 0.8554268
[1] 0.829437
[1] 0.8454056
[1] 0.835527
[1] 0.8416126
[1] 0.837854
[1] 0.8401717
[1] 0.838741
[1] 0.8396236
[1] 0.839079
[1] 0.839415
[1] 0.8392076
[1] 0.8393356
[1] 0.8392566
[1] 0.8393053
[1] 0.8392753
[1] 0.8392938
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:47 PM, RON70 <ron_michael70 at yahoo.com> wrote: