[R] How to coerce a parameter in nls?

Jianling Fan fanjianling at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 18:22:53 CEST 2015


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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