Original question...
> > is it possible to pass additional parameters to the model function that are
> > known and groupwise constant with nlsList? I could not find something like a
> > "keep this fixed" option in the documentation and the code (my fault...?)
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves <at> pdf.com> writes:
>
> The "nlsList" function does NOT have the common ellipsis ("..." )
> argument to support that.
...
> If it were my problem, I might make a local copy of the "nlsList"
> function and try to modify it to work, at least for my problem. In this
> case, "nlsList" is merely a call to "UseMethods". To get beyond that, I
> requested 'methods("nlsList")' with the following result:
>
> nlsList.formula nlsList.selfStart*
Thanks, Spencer. When I studied the quinModel example (page 380,
Pinheiro/Bates) I noted that it is possible to pass non-varying parameters to
nlme by not including them in the fixed=... parameter. As quite a few examples
in PB used nlsList for the first approximation (and, as far I understand, nlme
does it internally anyway) I had missed this feature of nlme, even if the PB-
book heavily use-stained.
Dieter
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