Hi May you help me correct my loop function.
I want optim to estimates al_j; au_j; sigma_j; b_j by looking at 0 to 20, 21 to 40, 41 to 60 data points. The final result should have 4 columns of each of the estimates AND 4 rows of each of 0 to 20, 21 to 40, 41 to 60. ###MY code is n=20 runs=4 out=matrix(0,nrow=runs) llik = function(x) { al_j=x[1]; au_j=x[2]; sigma_j=x[3]; b_j=x[4] sum(na.rm=T, ifelse(a$R_j< 0, -log(1/(2*pi*(sigma_j^2)))- (1/(2*(sigma_j^2))*(a$R_j+al_j-b_j*a$R_m))^2, ifelse(a$R_j>0 , -log(1/(2*pi*(sigma_j^2)))- (1/(2*(sigma_j^2))*(a$R_j+au_j-b_j*a$R_m))^2, -log(pnorm(au_j,mean=b_j*a$R_m,sd=sqrt(sigma_j^2))- pnorm(au_j,mean=b_j*a$R_m,sd=sqrt(sigma_j^2))))) ) } start.par = c(0, 0, 0.01, 1) out1 = optim(llik, par=start.par, method="Nelder-Mead") for (i in 1: runs) { index_start=20*(i-1)+1 index_end= 20*i out[i]=out1[index_start:index_end] } out Thank you in advance Edward UCT ####My data R_j R_m -0.0625 0.002320654 0 -0.004642807 0.033333333 0.005936332 0.032258065 0.001060848 0 0.007114057 0.015625 0.005581558 0 0.002974794 0.015384615 0.004215271 0.060606061 0.005073116 0.028571429 -0.006001279 0 -0.002789594 0.013888889 0.00770633 0 0.000371663 0.02739726 -0.004224228 -0.04 0.008362539 0 -0.010951605 0 0.004682924 0.013888889 0.011839993 -0.01369863 0.004210383 -0.027777778 -0.04658949 0 0.00987272 -0.057142857 -0.062203157 -0.03030303 -0.119177639 0.09375 0.077054642 0 -0.022763619 -0.057142857 0.050408775 0 0.024706076 -0.03030303 0.004043701 0.0625 0.004951088 0 -0.005968731 0 -0.038292548 0 0.013381097 0.014705882 0.006424728 -0.014492754 -0.020115626 0 -0.004837891 -0.029411765 -0.022054654 0.03030303 0.008936428 0.044117647 8.16925E-05 0 -0.004827246 -0.042253521 0.004653096 -0.014705882 -0.004222151 0.029850746 0.000107267 -0.028985507 -0.001783206 0.029850746 -0.006372981 0.014492754 0.005492374 -0.028571429 -0.009005846 0 0.001031683 0.044117647 0.002800551 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/loop-in-optim-tp3643230p3643230.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.