Hi June: As don't have your data (yogurtnp.csv), I cannot replicate your problem. What does fr( c(0,0,0,1,0,-25,-0.2) ) return?
Arne On Monday, 2. March 2009 11:55:56, June Wong wrote: > Dear Rhelpers > > I have the problem with initial values, could you please tell me how to > solve it? Thank you > June > > > p = summary(maxLik(fr,start=c(0,0,0,1,0,-25,-0.2))) > > Error in maxRoutine(fn = logLik, grad = grad, hess = hess, start = start, > : > > NA in the initial gradient > > > p = summary(maxLik(fr,start=c(0,0,0,1,0,-25,-0.2),method="BFGS")) > > Error in optim(start, func, gr = gradient, control = control, method = > "BFGS", : > > initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite > > The codes are as follows > > yogurt = read.table("yogurtnp.csv", header=F,sep=",") > attach(yogurt) > dim(yogurt) > choice = yogurt[,2:5] > price=yogurt[,14:17] > feature=yogurt[,6:9] > n = nrow(yogurt) > constant = rep(1,n) > yop=cbind(constant,feature[,1],price[,1]) > dan=cbind(constant,feature[,2],price[,2]) > hil=cbind(constant,feature[,3],price[,3]) > wt=cbind(feature[,4],price[,4]) > > library(maxLik) > fr <- function(x) { > con1 = rbind(x[1],x[5],x[6]) > con2 = rbind(x[2],x[5],x[6]) > con3 = rbind(x[3],x[5],x[6]) > con4 = rbind(x[5],x[6]) > rho = exp(x[7])/(1+exp(x[7])) > ey = exp((yop%*%con1)/rho) > ed = exp((dan%*%con2)/rho) > eh = exp((hil%*%con3)/rho) > ew = exp((wt%*%con4)/rho) > ev = ey+ed+eh+ew > den=(ey+ed+eh+ew) > iv = rho*log(den) > pp=exp(x[4]+iv)/(1+exp(x[4]+iv)) > pr1 =pp*(ey/den) > pr2 =pp*(ed/den) > pr3 =pp*(eh/den) > pr4 =pp*(ew/den) > pnp=1/(1+exp(x[4]+iv)) > likelihood = > (pnp*yogurt[,1])+(pr1*yogurt[,2])+(pr2*yogurt[,3])+(pr3*yogurt[,4])+(pr4*yo >gurt[,4]) lsum = log(likelihood) > return(colSums(lsum)) > } > p = summary(maxLik(fr,start=c(0,0,0,1,0,-25,-0.2))) > p > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Arne Henningsen http://www.arne-henningsen.name/ ______________________________________________ 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.