Thanks for the reply. optim(initpar,Linn,NULL,method="BFGS",hessian=TRUE,control=list(trace=1,REPORT=1,maxit=300))
The optim is to minimize the negative likelihood function which is performed in function "Linn", Every time the code stops right after optim, for example, the output looks like: " iter 16 value 42.818394 iter 16 value 42.818394 final value 42.818394 converged > " It seems from the code that the loop should continue to run, at least calculate "u" values... but it does not... Thank you. Hi all, I wrote the following lines of codes try to do some iterations to find the global optimal values, but the function does not execute properly. Every time codes stop after one iteration right after executing the optim() function. Does anyone could have me to take a look? Thanks. if (count>0){ k=k+0.05; mu0=c(83+k,0,0) Sigma0= diag(0.4,3) initpar=c(.1+10*k,10*k,10*k,10*k) # initial parameters for Phi[1,1], the 2 Q’s and R est=optim(initpar,Linn,NULL,method="BFGS",hessian=TRUE,control=list(trace=1,REPORT=1,maxit=300)) stderr=sqrt(diag(solve(est$hessian))) estimate=est$par u=cbind(estimate,stderr) if (u[1]>0 & u[2]>0 & u[3]>0 & u[4]>0){ print("mu0=");print(mu0); print("initpar=");print(initpar) #break } else {count=-1; } } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Optim-function-in-the-loop-tp23352044p23374525.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.