Sorry, I sent that e-mail too soon.  I realize you called "x.seq" just "x"
in the data frame.

Yes, this is a great way to fit these data. I think from this that I can
probably now work with the related function of the line to get my minimum
and maximum values.

Thanks for your assistance!

Katrina

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Katrina Bennett <kebenn...@alaska.edu>wrote:

> Hi Petr,
> Thank you for the response.
>
> I am not familiar with the nls package. I am interested in obtaining a
> function to represent the relationship observed in "dat" over x.seq (days)
> so that I can calculate a minimum and maximum of the function.
>
> In the example below, it seems like you are using a data frame, but I tried
> to create the data frame from x.seq and dat:
>
> dat.df <- data.frame(x.seq, dat)
>
> However, I got the following error:
>
> Error in nls(dat ~ SSlogis(x, Asym, xmid, scal), data = dat.df, start =
> list(Asym = 90,  :
>   parameters without starting value in 'data': x
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
>
> Katrina
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Are you sure about sine fit? Seems to me that logistics would be better
>>
>> fit<-nls(dat ~ SSlogis(x, Asym, xmid,scal), data = dat.df, start =
>> list(Asym=90, xmid = 75, scal = -6))
>> plot(dat.df)
>> lines(dat.df$x[complete.cases(dat.df)], predict(fit))
>>
>> Regards
>> Petr
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Hello, I'm trying to generate a sine wave in R to fit my observations
>> using
>> > the general formula:
>> >
>> > y=a*sin(b[x+h*pi)]+k
>> >
>> > where a = amplitude, b=period, h=phase shift, and k=vertical shift
>> >
>> > I want to use following translation to bring the sine function up onto
>> the
>> > y-axis to range from 0-1, and this will place the wave on the x-axis
>> from
>> > 0-pi/2.
>> >
>> > y=1/2sin(2[x+ 1/4*pi]) + 1/2
>> >
>> > Additionally, I need to spread this along a x-axis that spans 1-153
>> (days).
>> >
>> > Can anyone help with this? I seem to be able to use the curve function
>> fine,
>> > but entering the translations doesn't seem to provide an answer.
>> >
>> > Here is an example of the data set I am trying to 'match' using this
>> > function.
>> >
>> > dat <-
>> >
>> c(75.44855206,NA,NA,NA,82.70745342,82.5335019,88.56617647,80.00128866,94.
>> > 15418227,86.63987539,93.91052952,74.10612245,86.62289562,90.
>> > 47961047,NA,NA,82.45320197,72.14371257,NA,71.44104803,72.59742896,68.
>> > 36363636,NA,NA,61,NA,NA,71.26502909,NA,85.93333333,84.34248284,79.
>> > 00522193,79.64223058,97.2074017,88.43700548,96.40413877,95.13511869,92.
>> > 57379057,93.97498475,NA,97.55995131,89
>> .53321146,97.21728545,93.21980198,
>> > 77.54054054,95.85392575,86.25684723,97.55325624,80.03950617,NA,91.
>> > 34023128,92.42906574,88.59433962,65.77272727,89.63772455,NA,NA,NA,NA,74.
>> > 86344239,83.57594937,70.22516556,65.30543319,NA,NA,67.84852294,60.
>> > 90909091,54.79303797,NA,52.18735363,33.47003155,NA,41.34693878,24.
>> > 5047043,NA,NA,NA,NA,9.944444444,13.6875,NA,11.90267176,84.14285714,3.
>> > 781456954,NA,1.432926829,4.26557377,1.823529412,0.444620253,4.
>> >
>> 711155378,NA,6.320284698,0.581632653,0.144578313,3.666666667,0,0,0,0,0,NA,
>> > 0.032947462,0,0,10.54545455,0,NA,0.561007958,0.75,NA,0.048780488,0.
>> > 74137931,NA,2.023339318,0,0,0,NA,NA,0.156950673,NA,0.283769634,32.
>> >
>> 81818182,NA,NA,0,NA,0,0,0,NA,0.212454212,3.120181406,NA,0.011811024,NA,0,
>> >
>> 0.120430108,5.928571429,1.75,0.679292929,0.97,NA,0,NA,NA,1,0.38547486,NA,
>> > 1.460732984,0.007795889,0.05465288,0.004341534)
>> > plot(dat/100)
>> > par(new=F)
>> > x.seq <- seq(100, 0, , 153)
>> > y <- ??? #*y = 2 sin 2Ď€ (x - 1/4)* or y ~ a + c*sin(x+b)
>> >
>> > However, I can't find a reference for the no place for k. Also, I've
>> tried a
>> > lot of different iterations, but can't seem to figure out how to do this
>> in
>> > R.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts or ideas on this?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > Katrina
>> >
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