Re: [R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-12 Thread Jonas Stein
On 07/12/2012 01:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-07-11 2:34 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: Take a look at the predicted values at your starting fit: there's a discontinuity at 0.4, which sure makes it look as though overflow is occurring. I'd recommend expanding tanh() in terms of exponentials and

Re: [R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-12 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 11, 2012, at 20:34 , Jonas Stein wrote: Take a look at the predicted values at your starting fit: there's a discontinuity at 0.4, which sure makes it look as though overflow is occurring. I'd recommend expanding tanh() in terms of exponentials and rewrite the prediction in a way

[R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-12 Thread John C Nash
) -- Best, JN On 07/12/2012 06:00 AM, r-help-requ...@r-project.org wrote: From: Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] nls problem: singular gradient Message-ID: e8h0d9-ao4@news.jonasstein.de Content-Type: text/plain Why fails

[R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-11 Thread Jonas Stein
Why fails nls with singular gradient here? I post a minimal example on the bottom and would be very happy if someone could help me. Kind regards, ### # define some constants smallc - 0.0001 t - seq(0,1,0.001) t0 - 0.5 tau1 - 0.02 # generate yy(t) yy - 1/2 * ( 1- tanh((t - t0)/smallc)

Re: [R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/07/2012 11:04 AM, Jonas Stein wrote: Why fails nls with singular gradient here? I post a minimal example on the bottom and would be very happy if someone could help me. Take a look at the predicted values at your starting fit: there's a discontinuity at 0.4, which sure makes it look as

Re: [R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-11 Thread Jonas Stein
Take a look at the predicted values at your starting fit: there's a discontinuity at 0.4, which sure makes it look as though overflow is occurring. I'd recommend expanding tanh() in terms of exponentials and rewrite the prediction in a way that won't overflow. Duncan Murdoch Hi Duncan,

Re: [R] nls problem: singular gradient

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-07-11 2:34 PM, Jonas Stein wrote: Take a look at the predicted values at your starting fit: there's a discontinuity at 0.4, which sure makes it look as though overflow is occurring. I'd recommend expanding tanh() in terms of exponentials and rewrite the prediction in a way that won't