[R] How to coerce a parameter in nls?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 20:07:43 CEST 2015


You may have to do without masking and switch back to nls.  dproot2 and fo
are from prior post.

# to mask Rm6 omit it from start and set it explicitly
st <- c(Rm1=1.01, Rm2=1.01, Rm3=1.01, Rm4=6.65, Rm5=1.01, d50=20, c=-1)
Rm6 <- 1

fm.nls <- nls(fo, dproot2, start = st)

AIC(fm.nls)
summary(fm.nls)


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Jianling Fan <fanjianling at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Prof. Nash,
>
> My regression works good now. But I found another problem when I using
> nlxb. In the output, the SE, t-stat, and p-value are not available.
> Furthermore, I can't extract AIC from the output. The output looks
> like below:
>
> Do you have any suggestion for this?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Regards,
>
> nlmrt class object: x
> residual sumsquares =  0.29371  on  33 observations
>     after  9    Jacobian and  10 function evaluations
>   name            coeff          SE       tstat      pval
> gradient    JSingval
> Rm1               1.1162            NA         NA         NA
> -3.059e-13       2.745
> Rm2              1.56072            NA         NA         NA
> 1.417e-13        1.76
> Rm3              1.09775            NA         NA         NA
> -3.179e-13       1.748
> Rm4              7.18377            NA         NA         NA
> -2.941e-12       1.748
> Rm5              1.13562            NA         NA         NA
> -3.305e-13       1.076
> Rm6                    1  M         NA         NA         NA
> 0       0.603
> d50              22.4803            NA         NA         NA
> 4.975e-13       0.117
> c               -1.64075            NA         NA         NA
> 4.12e-12   1.908e-17
>
>
>
> On 21 September 2015 at 13:38, ProfJCNash <profjcnash at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've not used it for group data, and suspect that the code to generate
> > derivatives cannot cope with the bracket syntax. If you can rewrite the
> > equation without the brackets, you could get the derivatives and solve
> that
> > way. This will probably mean having a "translation" routine to glue
> things
> > together.
> >
> > JN
> >
> >
> > On 15-09-21 12:22 PM, Jianling Fan 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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> >>>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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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> >>
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> --
> Jianling Fan
> 樊建凌
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