Hi lily, You can get fairly good starting values just by eyeballing the curves:
plot(y) lines(supsmu(1:20,y)) lines(0.6*cos((1:20)/3+0.6*pi)+17.2) Jim On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:17 AM, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi R users, > > I have a question about fitting a cosine curve. I don't know how to set the > approximate starting values. Besides, does the method work for sine curve > as well? Thanks. > > Part of the dataset is in the following: > y=c(16.82, 16.72, 16.63, 16.47, 16.84, 16.25, 16.15, 16.83, 17.41, 17.67, > 17.62, 17.81, 17.91, 17.85, 17.70, 17.67, 17.45, 17.58, 16.99, 17.10) > t=c(7, 37, 58, 79, 96, 110, 114, 127, 146, 156, 161, 169, 176, 182, > 190, 197, 209, 218, 232, 240) > > I use the method to fit a curve, but it is different from the real curve, > which can be seen in the figure. > linFit <- lm(y ~ cos(t)) > fullFit <- nls(y ~ A*cos(omega*t+C) + B, > start=list(A=coef(linFit)[1],B=coef(linFit)[2],C=0,omega=.4)) #omega cannot > be set to 1, don't know why. > co <- coef(fullFit) > fit <- function(x, a, b, c, d) {a*cos(b*x+c)+d} > plot(x=t, y=y) > curve(fit(x, a=co['A'], b=co['omega'], c=co['C'],d=co['B']), add=TRUE > ,lwd=2, col="steelblue") > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.