>>>>> "MaggieZ" == Zhu, Maggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:40:37 -0500 writes:
MaggieZ> I had a hard time in learning nlm in R and appreciate any help.
MaggieZ> I encounted the following error message from time
MaggieZ> to time when I tried different starting parameter
MaggieZ> values (three parameter values in this case) in
>> nlm(f=SS.fun,p=c(0.1/40,0.1,2),hessian = FALSE,N.measure=object,h=20)
Error in f(x, ...) : only 0's may mix with negative subscripts
MaggieZ> Basically I know the three parameter values should all be positive
numbers. So, how to select appropriate starting parameter values to prevent
this kind of error message?
Maggie, it's a bug in the 'SS.fun' function that you are asking
nlm() to minimize. So it would be best to show us your
SS.fun().
BTW: "subscripts" are the `` i '' in x[i]
in its the subscripts that become wrong in your SS.fun function.
Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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