[R] Simple linear regression

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "KKWa" == Ko-Kang Kevin Wang <kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
>>>>>     on Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:00:00 +1200 (NZST) writes:

    KKWa> Try: ?lm

no.  see below

    KKWa> On 10 Jul 2003, Gorazd Brumen wrote:

    >> Date: 10 Jul 2003 12:54:46 +0200 From: Gorazd Brumen
    >> <gbrumen at student.ethz.ch> To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
    >> Subject: [R] Simple linear regression
    >> 
    >> Dear all,
    >> 
    >> My friend wants to fit a model of the type
    >> 
    >> z = a x^n y^m + b,
    >> 
    >> where x, y, z are data and a, b, n, m are unknown
    >> parameters.
    >> 
    >> How can he transform this to fit in the linear regression
    >> framework?  Any help would be appreciated.

He can't.  When all 4   a, b, n, m  are parameters, this is a
non-linear regression problem.  --> Function  nls()

Now, effectively 2 of the 4 are linear, 2 are non linear;
such a problem is denoted as  `` partially linear least-squares ''
In such a case it's quite important (for efficiency and
inference reasons) to make use of this fact.

 ---> use  nls(...., method = "plinear" , ....)

Regards,
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