[R] How to coerce a parameter in nls?

Jianling Fan fanjianling at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 19:03:11 CEST 2015


Thanks Gabor,

 That works good to rewrite the express the formula!

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Jianling

On 21 September 2015 at 10:43, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Express the formula in terms of simple operations like this:
>
> # add 0/1 columns ref.1, ref.2, ..., ref.6
> dproot2 <- do.call(data.frame, transform(dproot, ref = outer(dproot$ref,
> seq(6), "==") + 0))
>
> # now express the formula in terms of the new columns
> library(nlmrt)
> fitdp1<-nlxb(den ~ (Rm1 * ref.1 + Rm2 * ref.2 + Rm3 * ref.3 + Rm4 * ref.4 +
> Rm5 * ref.5 + Rm6 * ref.6)/(1+(depth/d50)^c),
>          data = dproot2,
>          start = c(Rm1=1.01, Rm2=1.01, Rm3=1.01, Rm4=6.65, Rm5=1.01, Rm6=1,
> d50=20, c=-1),
>          masked = "Rm6")
>
> where we used this input:
>
> Lines <- "   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"
>
> dproot <- read.table(text = Lines, header = TRUE)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jianling Fan <fanjianling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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