Re: [Rd] nonlinear least square

Look at the 'self-starting' functions for nls(), such as SSasymp(). Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Evans Otieno Ochiaga < evansochi...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi to all, > > Is there a way we can fit a non linear model to a data using non linear > least

[Rd] nonlinear least square

Hi to all, Is there a way we can fit a non linear model to a data using non linear least square method without necessarily initialising the parameters of the model. I find it hard to get the initial value of the parameter. Below is a sample of the code I have. *nachman<-nls(OARmedium$OCCUPANC