Re: [R] How to store the parameter estimated by nls( ) to a variable?
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:50:59AM -0700, Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Professor Murdoch. Thank you so much Best Wishes Yuchen Luo On 8/12/07, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Colleagues. I believe this should be a problem encountered by many: nls( ) is a very useful and efficient function to use if we are just to display the estimated value on screen. What if we need R to store the estimated parameter in a variable? For example: x=rnorm(10, mean=1000, sd=10) y=x^2+100+rnorm(10) a=nls(y~(x^2+para),control=list(maxiter = 1000, minFactor=0.5 ^1024),start=list(para=0.0)) How to store the estimated value of para in this case, in a variable, say, b? It is easy to display a and find all the information. How ever, I need to fit a different set of x and y in every loop of my code and I need to store the estimated values for further use. I have checked both the online manual and several S-plus books but no example as such showed up. Your help will be highly appreciated! coef(a) will get what you want. coef() works for most modelling functions where it makes sense. Duncan Murdoch further information might be extracted from the `summary' return value. e.g., if you need not only the parameters but also their error estimates, you could get them via summary(a)$parameters[, Std. Error] (question: is this the canonical way to do it or is their a better one?) __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] How to store the parameter estimated by nls( ) to a variable?
Dear Colleagues. I believe this should be a problem encountered by many: nls( ) is a very useful and efficient function to use if we are just to display the estimated value on screen. What if we need R to store the estimated parameter in a variable? For example: x=rnorm(10, mean=1000, sd=10) y=x^2+100+rnorm(10) a=nls(y~(x^2+para),control=list(maxiter = 1000, minFactor=0.5 ^1024),start=list(para=0.0)) How to store the estimated value of para in this case, in a variable, say, b? It is easy to display a and find all the information. How ever, I need to fit a different set of x and y in every loop of my code and I need to store the estimated values for further use. I have checked both the online manual and several S-plus books but no example as such showed up. Your help will be highly appreciated! Best Wishes Yuchen Luo [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to store the parameter estimated by nls( ) to a variable?
Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Colleagues. I believe this should be a problem encountered by many: nls( ) is a very useful and efficient function to use if we are just to display the estimated value on screen. What if we need R to store the estimated parameter in a variable? For example: x=rnorm(10, mean=1000, sd=10) y=x^2+100+rnorm(10) a=nls(y~(x^2+para),control=list(maxiter = 1000, minFactor=0.5 ^1024),start=list(para=0.0)) How to store the estimated value of para in this case, in a variable, say, b? It is easy to display a and find all the information. How ever, I need to fit a different set of x and y in every loop of my code and I need to store the estimated values for further use. I have checked both the online manual and several S-plus books but no example as such showed up. Your help will be highly appreciated! coef(a) will get what you want. coef() works for most modelling functions where it makes sense. Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] How to store the parameter estimated by nls( ) to a variable?
Dear Professor Murdoch. Thank you so much Best Wishes Yuchen Luo On 8/12/07, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Colleagues. I believe this should be a problem encountered by many: nls( ) is a very useful and efficient function to use if we are just to display the estimated value on screen. What if we need R to store the estimated parameter in a variable? For example: x=rnorm(10, mean=1000, sd=10) y=x^2+100+rnorm(10) a=nls(y~(x^2+para),control=list(maxiter = 1000, minFactor=0.5 ^1024),start=list(para=0.0)) How to store the estimated value of para in this case, in a variable, say, b? It is easy to display a and find all the information. How ever, I need to fit a different set of x and y in every loop of my code and I need to store the estimated values for further use. I have checked both the online manual and several S-plus books but no example as such showed up. Your help will be highly appreciated! coef(a) will get what you want. coef() works for most modelling functions where it makes sense. Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
