Hi there
I am looking at the functional response (the consumption of single predators of prey over a range of prey densities) and Im having issues with the following script when trying to obtain mutliple replicates of coefficients (a and h) from the following nls model based on Hollings disc equation: > model<-nls(eaten~(a*suppl)/(1+a*h*suppl),start=list(a=1.2,h=0.015),data=rep) #which produces the following Formula: eaten ~ (a * suppl)/(1 + a * h * suppl) Parameters: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) a 2.97344 1.72972 1.719 0.093340 . h 0.09447 0.02247 4.205 0.000143 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 Residual standard error: 4.545 on 40 degrees of freedom Number of iterations to convergence: 8 Achieved convergence tolerance: 3.002e-06 # I am then trying to bootstrap the model to obtain multiple parameter estimates which I can then compare between the two data sets I have using a t test (hopefully) > library(bootstrap) > repnew<-cbind(as.numeric(rep[,2]),as.numeric(rep[,3])) #had to convert > data to matrix as it wasnt numeric > theta<-function(repnew){coef(eval(repmod$call))} > bootstrap(repnew,10,theta) > bootstrap(repnew,100,theta) #When I repeated bootstrapping 10 and then 100 times I keep getting the same values for the coefficients a and h. This code was adapted from another users code who had the same problem and as of yet I cant figure out waht is wrong. Do I need state that I want to use replacement sampling or is this already assumed? Thank you for any help :) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/replacement-bootstrapping-tp3258599p3258599.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.