[R] number of iteration s exceeded maximum of 50
Douglas Bates
bates at stat.wisc.edu
Sun Jun 18 14:15:08 CEST 2006
On 6/16/06, Leaf Sun <leaflovesun at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Sorry, I thought it was a straightforward question inside which I was stuck .
>
> I used nls( ) to estimate a and b in this function.
>
> nls(y~ a*x^b,start=list(a=a1,b=b1)
>
> seems the start list I gave was not able to reach convergence and it gave notes: number of iteration s exceeded maximum of 50. Then I put nls.control(maxiter = 50, tol = 1e-05, minFactor = 1/1024) in nls(.. ), and modified the argument of maxiter = 500. But it worked out as the same way and noted : number of iteration s exceeded maximum of 50. I have totally no idea how to set this parameter MAXITER.
>
> Thanks for any information!
I think you are assuming that values passed to nls.control are
persistent and will apply to further calls to nls. They don't. If
you want to increase the maximum number of iterations you do it as
nls(y ~ a*x^b, start = list(a = a1, b = b1), control = list(maxiter = 500))
but I would suggest that you also use trace = TRUE in the call to nls
so you can see where the iterations are going. Merely increasing the
number of iterations for an optimization that has gone into
never-never land isn't going to help it converge.
Two other things to consider: this is a partially linear model in the
the parameter `a' appears linearly in the model expression. You may
be able to stabilize the iterations using
nls(y ~ x^b, start = list(b = b1), control = list(maxiter = 500),
trace = TRUE, alg = 'plinear')
Finally, and most important, please plot the data before trying to fit
a nonlinear model to it so you can see if it has the characteristics
that you would expect from data generate by such a model. As Brian
Joiner said, "Regression without plots is truly a regression".
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> Leaf
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I found r-site-research not work for me these days.
> >
> > When I was doing nls( ) , there was an error "number of iterations exceeded maximum of 50". I set number in nls.control which is supposed to control the number of iterations but it didn't work well. Could anybody with this experience tell me how to fix it? Thanks in advance!
>
> We cannot make suggestions unless you tell us what you tried yourself.
> Id possible, please gib´ve a reproducible examle.
>
> Uwe Ligges
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> > Leaf
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