Ben Bolker <bolker <at> ufl.edu> writes: > You should really try the methods I suggested ... you can get > a closed-form expression for the number eaten as a function of the > other parameters using the Lambert W function. I don't think what > you're doing (with Ne on both sides of the equation) is ever going to > work ... > > Ben Bolker
PS see p. 355 in http://people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/emdbook/book.pdf , or p. 269 in the published version ... The example there assumes binomial error, and does maximum likelihood fits, but you could adapt those examples to least-squares as well. ______________________________________________ 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.
