[R] logistic transformation using nlminb

2008-05-16 Thread John Pitchard
Dear all, I want to find the optimal values of a vector, x (with 6 elements) say, satisfying the following conditions: 1. for all x>=0 2. sum(x)=1 3. x[5]<=0.5 and x[6]<=0.5 For the minimisation I'm using nlminb and to satisfy the first 2 conditions the logistic transformation is used with box c

[R] logistic transformation using nlminb

2008-05-15 Thread John Pitchard
Dear all, I want to find the optimal values of a vector, x (with 6 elements) say, satisfying the following conditions: 1. for all x>=0 2. sum(x)=1 3. x[5]<=0.5 and x[6]<=0.5 For the minimisation I'm using nlminb and to satisfy the first 2 conditions the logistic transformation is used with box c

Re: [R] question about nlminb

2008-04-13 Thread John Pitchard
code. Use something > like 'opt5' for one and 'opt4' for the other.] > Then > > Sig5 = A %*% vcov.nlminb(opt) %*% t(A). > I believe the A matrix you want is as follows: > A = matrix(NA, dim=c(5, 4)) > A[1:4, 1:4] <- diag(4) > A[5,

Re: [R] question about nlminb

2008-04-09 Thread John Pitchard
nction 'f2(x1, ...)' that computes xFull = c(x1, 1-sum(x1)) > and feeds that to your 'fn'. > If this makes sense, great. Else, if my answer is not useful, be so kind > as to PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provid

[R] question about nlminb

2008-04-08 Thread John Pitchard
Dear All, I wanted to post some more details about the query I sent to s-news last week. I have a vector with a constraint. The constraint is that the sum of the vector must add up to 1 - but not necessarily positive, i.e. x[n] <- 1 -(x[1] + ...+x[n-1]) I perform the optimisation on the vector

[R] question about nlminb

2008-04-08 Thread John Pitchard
Dear All, I wanted to post some more details about the query I sent to s-news last week. I have a vector with a constraint. The constraint is that the sum of the vector must add up to 1 - but not necessarily positive, i.e. x[n] <- 1 -(x[1] + ...+x[n-1]) I perform the optimisation on the vector