Re: [R] Error code from optim - "NEW_X" what does it mean?

Proportion Var 0.411 0.217 Cumulative Var 0.411 0.628 The degrees of freedom for the model is 4 and the fit was 0.5042 > nfit$converged [1] FALSE Thank you, Avraham Adler -Original Message- From: Jef

[R] Error code from optim - "NEW_X" what does it mean?

Hello. Does anyone know what the error code "NEW_X" means in optim? Here is what the return looks like: $counts function gradient 302 302 $convergence [1] 1 $message [1

[R] Help documentation in extractAIC

Hello. The sentence in extractAIC's help which discusses AIC's estimate of -2logL from RSS reads: "AIC only handles unknown scale and uses the formula n log (RSS/n) - n + n log 2pi - sum(log w) where w are the weights. Furthe

[R] Strange behavior when trying to piggyback off of "fitdistr"

Hello. I am not certain even how to search the archives for this particular question, so if there is an obvious answer, please smack me with a large halibut and send me to the URLs. I have been experimenting with fitting curves by using both maximum likelihood and maximum spacing estimation te