Guru S wrote:
Hi,

I fitted tree growth data with Chapman-Richards growth function using nls. summary(fit.nls) Formula: HEIGHT ~ A * (1 - exp(-B * AGE))^C Parameters: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) A 29.007627 0.270485 107.24 <2e-16 ***
B  0.030813  0.001095  28.13  <2e-16 ***
C  1.849405  0.068659  26.94  <2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 1.879 on 713 degrees of freedom

Algorithm "port", convergence message: relative convergence (4)
When I try to run the anova() function I get this:

anova(fit.nls)
Error in anova.nls(fit.nls) : anova is only defined for sequences of "nls" 
objects

Could you tell me what the problem is?

It's what the message says: You can't run anova() on one model, only compare several, as in anoval(fit.nls, fit2.nls). It is not clear what anova(fit.nls) should do in the nonlinear case , since you cannot in general remove parameters successively from the model (notice, for your own model, that C is meaningless if B=0 and both B and C are meaningless if A=0).

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