Hi It is preferable to echo your posts to r-help, you usually get more answers and some definitelly superb to mine. It is also better to start a new mail if your question has nothing to do with original subject
"Maura E Monville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal dne 01.10.2007 17:44:43: > Unluckily I do not have the privilege of practising with R all day > long. I agree the more I read the better but I can only devote a > portion of my time. That is not unusual. However customizing yourself with R environment, syntax and basic data manipulation can save you a lot of headache. Just make a hardcopy of 100 pages R-intro and use it in small portions before you fall asleep. In few days you will become a quite experienced user. Regards Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyway, I ended up using lm. It worked fine after some time spent on > choosing the independent variable. > I ran some tests for heteroschedasticity, autocorrelation, normal > distribbution of residuals and everything came out fine. > Now the next step is clustering using the coefficients of the regression model. > I have found plenty of documentation on regression analysis in the > "contributed" section. Some go over the major concepts of the > underlying theory and then show some worked out examples. > I found nothing so nicely laid out about cluster analysis with R. > I would appreciate some suggestion about reading on techniques for clustering. > Thank you in advance. > > Best regards, > Maura E. > > On 10/1/07, Petr PIKAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you at least try to use search possibilities in R to find it? It shall > > be a part of basic R installation, however it is not loaded automatically > > when starting R (there are only few packages loaded on start). > > > > If you tried > > > > > ?nlme > > No documentation for 'nlme' in specified packages and libraries: > > you could try 'help.search("nlme")' > > > > and help.search(nlme) gives > > > > BIC(nlme) Bayesian Information > > Criterion > > fitted.nlmeStruct(nlme) Calculate nlmeStruct Fitted > > Values > > getData.lme(nlme) Extract lme Object Data > > nlme(nlme) Nonlinear Mixed-Effects > > Models > > nlme.nlsList(nlme) NLME fit from nlsList > > Object > > nlmeControl(nlme) Control Values for nlme Fit > > nlmeObject(nlme) Fitted nlme Object > > nlmeStruct(nlme) Nonlinear Mixed-Effects > > Structure > > predict.nlme(nlme) Predictions from an nlme > > Object > > residuals.nlmeStruct(nlme) Calculate nlmeStruct > > Residuals > > > > > > Even help.search("nonlinear") would reveal at least 3 packages > > > > rms.curv(MASS) Relative Curvature Measures > > for Non-Linear Regression > > sammon(MASS) Sammon's Non-Linear Mapping > > gnls(nlme) Fit Nonlinear Model Using > > Generalized Least Squares > > gnlsStruct(nlme) Generalized Nonlinear Least > > Squares Structure > > nlme(nlme) Nonlinear Mixed-Effects > > Models > > nlmeStruct(nlme) Nonlinear Mixed-Effects > > Structure > > nlm(stats) Non-Linear Minimization > > nls(stats) Nonlinear Least Squares > > predict.nls(stats) Predicting from Nonlinear > > Least Squares Fits > > selfStart(stats) Construct Self-starting > > Nonlinear Models > > summary.nls(stats) Summarizing Non-Linear > > Least-Squares Model Fits > > > > Regards > > > > Petr > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Maura E Monville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal dne 27.09.2007 > > 21:42:30: > > > > > This command is not found. Shall I install some extra package ? > > > Thamk you, > > > maura > > > > > > > > > On 9/27/07, Petr PIKAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Have a look at package nlme and maybe also you should consult a > > > Pinheiro&Bates book about nonlinear mixed effects models. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Petr > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 27.09.2007 07:46:03: > > > > > > > I would appreciate some suggestions about nonlinear regression > > > available in > > > > R ... possible methods and plenty of worked out examples .... > > > > I have a bunch of noisy curves representing breathing amplitude from > > > medical > > > > physics experiments recoding patients' breathing tracks in form of > > > > Amplitude, Phase, Time, some flags controlling the data validity. > > > > A variable number of successive breathing cycles were recorded. > > > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > -- > > > > Maura E.M > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Maura E.M > > > > > -- > Maura E.M ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.