Non-linear maximization function in R

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:12:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: aazaff <aazaff at uga.edu>
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Non-linear maximization function in R
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Hello,

# Full disclosure. I am not sure if my problem is a bug(s) in the code, or a
fundamental misunderstanding on my part about what I am trying to do with
these statistics. I am not familiar with maximum likelihood tests. 

#Furthermore, if I attempt a non-linear maximization on this function, I
continue to get a positive negative log-odds and what I think are
unreasonable looking parameter estimates. What does this mean?

sol<-nlm(HOF,p,x=Sample,y=Aequipecten,model=4)
sol

$minimum
[1] 32.72701