This only uses 2 parameters instead of 3 and gives quite a good fit: > DF <- structure(list(conc = c(0.077, 0.328, 0.882, 1.195, 1.884, 3.577, + 6.549, 13, 33.69, 52.22, 90.14, 166.05, 233.62, 346.89), vel = 1:14), .Names = c("conc", + "vel"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -14L)) > > DF.nls <- nls(conc ~ a * exp(b/vel), DF, start = c(a=1, b=1)) > DF.nls Nonlinear regression model model: conc ~ a * exp(b/vel) data: DF a b 35773.97 -65.02 residual sum-of-squares: 249.6
Number of iterations to convergence: 12 Achieved convergence tolerance: 1.410e-06 > plot(conc ~ vel, DF) > lines(DF$vel, fitted(DF.nls)) On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:53 AM, ruchita gupta <ruchitarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I was trying to estimate the weibull model using nls after putting OLS > values as the initial inputs to NLS. > I tried multiple times but still i m getting the same error of Error in > nlsModel(formula, mf, start, wts) : > singular gradient matrix at initial parameter estimates. > > The Program is as below > >> vel <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14) >> df <- data.frame(conc, vel) >> df > conc vel > 1 0.077 1 > 2 0.328 2 > 3 0.882 3 > 4 1.195 4 > 5 1.884 5 > 6 3.577 6 > 7 6.549 7 > 8 13.000 8 > 9 33.690 9 > 10 52.220 10 > 11 90.140 11 > 12 166.050 12 > 13 233.620 13 > 14 346.890 14 >> plot(df$vel, df$conc) >> para0.st <- c(K=450, > + alpha=0.054,beta=3.398 ) >> fit0 <- nls( > + conc~ K-(K*exp(-(vel/alpha)^beta)), df, start= para0.st,trace=T) > Error in nlsModel(formula, mf, start, wts) : > singular gradient matrix at initial parameter estimates > > > I will be highly thankful if some one can please let me know where is the > mistake as i m unable to trace it. > > Thanks > Ruchita > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, ruchita gupta <ruchitarg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello >> >> After performing NLS estimates for some sigmoid model(like logistic growth >> model and Gompertz growth models), how can we get the RMSE(root mean square >> error) and MAPE(mean absolute percentage error) in R statistical tool for >> comparison between two models >> >> Thanks >> Ruchita >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.