NISTnls (version 0.9-13)

MGH09: More, Gabrow and Hillstrom example 9

Description

The MGH09 data frame has 11 rows and 2 columns giving

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

y

A numeric vector of response values.

x

A numeric vector of input values.

Source

Kowalik, J.S., and M. R. Osborne, (1978). Methods for Unconstrained Optimization Problems. New York, NY: Elsevier North-Holland.

Details

This problem was found to be difficult for some very good algorithms. There is a local minimum at (+inf, -14.07..., -inf, -inf) with final sum of squares 0.00102734.... See More, J. J., Garbow, B. S., and Hillstrom, K. E. (1981). Testing unconstrained optimization software. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 7(1): pp. 17--41.

Examples

Try <- function(expr) if (!inherits(val <- try(expr), "try-error")) val
plot(y ~ x, data = MGH09)
## starting values for this attempt are ridiculous
Try(fm1 <- nls(y ~ b1*(x**2+x*b2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE,
           start = c(b1 = 25, b2 = 39, b3 = 41.5, b4 = 39)))
Try(fm1a <- nls(y ~ b1*(x**2+x*b2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE, alg = "port",
           start = c(b1 = 25, b2 = 39, b3 = 41.5, b4 = 39)))

Try(fm2 <- nls(y ~ b1*(x**2+x*b2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE,
           start = c(b1 = 0.25, b2 = 0.39, b3 = 0.415, b4 = 0.39)))
Try(fm2a <- nls(y ~ b1*(x**2+x*b2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE, alg = "port",
           start = c(b1 = 0.25, b2 = 0.39, b3 = 0.415, b4 = 0.39)))
Try(fm3 <- nls(y ~ cbind(x, x**2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE, algorithm = "plinear",
           start = c(b3 = 41.5, b4 = 39)))
Try(fm4 <- nls(y ~ cbind(x, x**2) / (x**2+x*b3+b4),
           data = MGH09, trace = TRUE, algorithm = "plinear",
           start = c(b3 = 0.415, b4 = 0.39)))