profile.nls               package:nls               R Documentation

Method for Profiling nls Objects

Description:

     Investigates behavior of the log-likelihood function near the
     solution represented by `fitted'.

Usage:

     profile(fitted, which=1:npar, maxpts=100, alphamax=0.01, delta.t=cutoff/5, ...)

Arguments:

  fitted: the original fitted model object.

   which: the original model parameters which should be profiled. By
          default, all parameters are profiled.

  maxpts: maximum number of points to be used for profiling each
          parameter.

alphamax: maximum significance level allowed for the profile
          t-statistics.

 delta.t: suggested change on the scale of the profile t-statistics.
          Default value chosen to allow profiling at about 10 parameter
          values.

     ...: further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details:

     The profile t-statistics is defined as the square root of change
     in sum-of-squares divided by residual standard error with an
     appropriate sign.

Value:

     A list with an element for each parameter being profiled. The
     elements are data-frames with two variables  

par.vals: a matrix of parameter values for each fitted model.

     tau: The profile t-statistics.

Author(s):

     Douglas M. Bates and Saikat DebRoy

References:

     Bates, D.M. and Watts, D.G. (1988), Nonlinear Regression Analysis
     and Its Applications, Wiley (chapter 6)

See Also:

     `nls', `profile', `profiler.nls', `plot.profile.nls'

Examples:

     data( BOD )
     # obtain the fitted object
     fm1 <- nls(demand ~ SSasympOrig( Time, A, lrc ), data = BOD)
     # get the profile for the fitted model
     pr1 <- profile( fm1 )
     # profiled values for the two parameters
     pr1$A
     pr1$lrc

