Re: [R] nls - find good starting values

2009-07-14 Thread Bill.Venables
...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] nls - find good starting values Hi there, it might be a very simple question and I'd be glad to even get a link to some useful documentation... I have several data sets, I'd like to fit to a gaussian distribution. I've tried to give an estimate of the mean

Re: [R] nls - find good starting values

2009-07-14 Thread Dieter Menne
antje-4 wrote: I have several data sets, I'd like to fit to a gaussian distribution. I've tried to give an estimate of the mean and the sd of this distribution but still, I run into problems if these estimates are not close enough. For example, nls() breaks with this message:

Re: [R] nls - find good starting values

2009-07-14 Thread Antje
will pose a problem, of course. Bill Venables. From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Antje [niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de] Sent: 14 July 2009 17:21 To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] nls - find good starting values