I have never had much success in using nls(). If you scan the archives
you will find one or two postings from me on this topic. I have
received
no useful responses to these postings.
I have found that anything that I tried (and failed) to do using nls()
could be done quite easily using optim().
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 17/01/2008, at 3:56 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:02 +0100, Janice Kielbassa wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I want to do a non-linear regression with 2 explanatory variables
>> (something like : length ~ a * time * exp( b* temperature)), having a
>> data set (length, time, temperature). Which function could I use (I
>> tried nls but I think it doesn't work)
>
> Janice, I'll start by saying I can't help you as I have never used
> nls()
> myself and I am not familiar with this type of analysis.
>
> Why do you think that nls() "doesn't work"? It is a widely used
> part of
> R and thus probably very well tested.
>
> My understanding of these things is that nls is a sophisticated tool
> that requires some effort on the part of the user, such as selecting
> appropriate starting values.
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