Hmmmm, I'm assuming that you are trying to find the solution of \beta to the question:
argmin |y-X\beta|_2^2, which is a quadratic programming problem. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Hesen Peng<hesen.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Since the optimization goal is quadratic and constraint is linear, > quadratic programming functions will help. There are many such > packages available, e.g. quadprog. > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Stu @ AGS<s...@agstechnet.com> wrote: >> After a few days of work, I think I nearly have it. >> >> Unfortunately, theta is unchanged after I run this (as a script from a >> file). I thought that theta would contain the fitted parameters. >> >> >> >> The goal here is to find the least squares fit according to the function >> defined as "rss" subject to the constraints defined as ui and ci. >> >> I defined ui and ci to (hopefully) force par2 and par3 into the range 0.0 >> <= par2 <= 1.0 and 0.0 <= par3 <= 1.0. >> >> I am not at all sure that ui and ci are defined correctly. >> >> >> >> The call to constrOptim returns normally, but without a solution >> (apparently). >> >> >> >> Any suggestions appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Stu >> >> >> >> # data >> >> y <- >> c(0.111111111111111,0.0921052631578947,0.0564516129032258,0.0608108108108108 >> ,0.0128205128205128,0.0136078431372549); >> >> x1 <- >> c(0,0.978723404255319,0.087378640776699,0.549295774647887,0.0596026490066225 >> ,0.61578947368421); >> >> x2 <- c(1,3,4,5,6,7); >> >> x3 <- c(3600,169200,185400,255600,271800,342000); >> >> >> >> observs <- data.frame(y, x1, x2, x3); >> >> >> >> # function definition >> >> rss <- function(par, y, x1, x2, x3) { >> >> par1 <- par[1] >> >> par2 <- par[2] >> >> par3 <- par[3] >> >> ressq <- (y - par1 * (x1 + 1) * x2^(-par2) * x3^par3)^2 >> >> sum(ressq) >> >> } >> >> >> >> #call to optimizer >> >> opti <- constrOptim(c(0.5, 0.5, 0.1), rss, NULL, ui = rbind(c(0, 0), c(1, >> 0), c(0, 1)), ci = c(0, 1, 1)); >> >> >> >> >> [[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. >> > > > > -- > 彭河森 Hesen Peng > http://hesen.peng.googlepages.com/ > -- 彭河森 Hesen Peng http://hesen.peng.googlepages.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.