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nlmrt (version 2012-12.16)

summary.nlmrt: Summary output for nlmrt object.

Description

Provide a summary output (but involving some serious computations!) of an object of class nlmrt from nlxb or nlfb from package nlmrt.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'nlmrt':
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object
An object of class 'nlmrt'
...
Any data needed for the function. We do not know of any!

Value

  • returns an invisible copy of the nlmrt object.

Details

summary.nlmrt performs a summary method for an object of class 'nlmrt' that has been created by a routine such as nlfb or nlxb for nonlinear least squares problems.

Issue: nls when there are bounded parameters returns a Standard Error for each of the parameters. However, this summary does NOT have a Jacobian value (it is set to 0) for columns where a parameter is masked or at (or very close to) a bound. See the R code for the determination of whether we are at a bound.

There is a script seboundsnlmrtx.R that computes the nls() standard errors for comparison on a simple problem.

See Also

Function nls(), packages optim and optimx.