clotting <- data.frame(u = c(5,10,15,20,30,40,60,80,100), lot1 = c(118,58,42,35,27,25,21,19,18), lot2 = c(69,35,26,21,18,16,13,12,12)); lot=c(clotting$lot1,clotting$lot2); uu=c(clotting$u,clotting$u); x=uu; y=lot; n=length(y); x=cbind(rep(1,n),x); c=2; neg_loglikehood=function(theta){ -1*(c*sum(log(x%*%theta))+(c-1)*sum(log(y))-c*sum(y*(x%*%theta))); } g=glm(lot ~ log(uu), family=Gamma); optimization=optim(g$coef,neg_loglikehood)
and got the warning message: Warning messages: 1: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 2: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 3: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 4: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 5: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 6: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 7: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced 8: In log(x %*% theta) : NaNs produced However, everything in the x %*% theta matrix is positive: x %*% theta [,1] [1,] 0.01515921 [2,] 0.01909599 [3,] 0.02303277 [4,] 0.02696955 [5,] 0.03484312 [6,] 0.04271668 [7,] 0.05846380 [8,] 0.07421093 [9,] 0.08995805 [10,] 0.01515921 [11,] 0.01909599 [12,] 0.02303277 [13,] 0.02696955 [14,] 0.03484312 [15,] 0.04271668 [16,] 0.05846380 [17,] 0.07421093 [18,] 0.08995805 and it also gave me the minimizer below: theta=optimization$par theta (Intercept) log(uu) 0.0112224301 0.0007873562 Can anyone tell me why the I that warning message? Thank you very much. ______________________________________________ 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.