2008/5/15 Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you happen to notice the part at the bottom of every message about > "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code"? > Sorry, don't understand what that statement means in my context.
> Considering that the result you quote from "251" has 2 coefficients > and the result from "171" has 3 coefficients one might contemplate the > possibility that you are fitting different models or perhaps using > different data. However we can't verify anything about the causes > because we have no data regarding the problem. data below: y a b c d e f 1 300 39.87 39.85 39.90 39.87333 90000 2 400 45.16 45.23 45.17 45.18667 160000 3 500 50.72 51.03 50.90 50.88333 250000 4 600 56.85 56.80 57.02 56.89000 360000 5 700 63.01 63.09 63.14 63.08000 490000 6 800 69.52 59.68 69.63 66.27667 640000 so substitute a in my generic equation below for data column e (e.g. 39.87...) and b for f (e.g. 9e4). > > Perhaps you are Brian Ripley's evil twin trying to provoke him. I > would say that references to a nonexistent version "171" are > deliberately provocative. No idea and couldn't care less who br is: R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) Get your facts correct before spouting further rubbish. ______________________________________________ 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.