Re: [R] fit a deterministic function to observed data

2010-04-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Plotting y vs. x: plot(y ~ x) the graph seems to be flattening out at x = 0 at a level of around y = 500 so lets look at: plot(500-y ~ x) This curve is moving up rapidly so lets take the log to flatten it out: plot(log(500-y) ~ x) That looks quite linear so log(500-y)

[R] fit a deterministic function to observed data

2010-04-19 Thread vincent laperriere
Hi all, I am not a mathematician and I am trying to fit a function which could fit my observed data. Which function should I use and how could I fit it to data in R? Below are the data: x <- c(0, 9, 17, 24, 28, 30) y <- c(500, 480, 420, 300, 160, 5) I use R for Mac OS, version 2.10-1 2009-08-24