Re: [R] saddle points in optim

2010-11-07 Thread Ravi Varadhan
..@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010 3:45 am Subject: [R] saddle points in optim To: R-help@r-project.org > Hi, > I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a > function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix > (calculated from n

Re: [R] saddle points in optim

2010-11-07 Thread Ravi Varadhan
gt; Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010 3:45 am Subject: [R] saddle points in optim To: R-help@r-project.org > Hi, > I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a > function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix > (calculated from numDeriv::hess

Re: [R] saddle points in optim

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Bolker
Jonathan Phillips <994phij gmail.com> writes: > I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a > function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix > (calculated from numDeriv::hessian, which I read in some other r-help > post was meant to be more accurate than th

[R] saddle points in optim

2010-11-07 Thread Jonathan Phillips
Hi, I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix (calculated from numDeriv::hessian, which I read in some other r-help post was meant to be more accurate than the hessian given in optim). To get the standard erro

[R] saddle points in optim

2010-11-06 Thread Jonathan Phillips
Hi, I've been trying to use optim to minimise least squares for a function, and then get a guess at the error using the hessian matrix (calculated from numDeriv::hessian, which I read in some other r-help post was meant to be more accurate than the hessian given in optim). To get the standard erro