[R] fit a gamma pdf using Residual Sum-of-Squares

[Matthew Dowle]

Thanks for making it quickly reproducible - I was able to see that message 
in English within a few seconds.
The start has x=86, but the data is also called x.  Remove x=86 from start 
and you get a different error.
P.S. - please do include the R version information. It saves time for us, 
and we like it if you save us time.

"vincent laperriere" <vincent_laperriere at yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
news:883644.16455.qm at web24106.mail.ird.yahoo.com...
Hi all,

I would like to fit a gamma pdf to my data using the method of RSS (Residual 
Sum-of-Squares). Here are the data:

 x <- c(86,  90,  94,  98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 
142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174)
 y <- c(2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 60, 94, 128, 137, 128, 77, 68, 65, 60, 51, 26, 17, 
9, 5, 2, 3, 7, 3)

I have typed the following code, using nls method:

fit <- nls(y ~ (1/((s^a)*gamma(a))*x^(a-1)*exp(-x/s)), start = c(s=3, a=75, 
x=86))

But I have the following message error (sorry, this is in German):


Fehler in qr(.swts * attr(rhs, "gradient")) :
  Dimensionen [Produkt 3] passen nicht zur Länge des Objektes [23]
Zusätzlich: Warnmeldung:
In .swts * attr(rhs, "gradient") : Länge des längeren Objektes
  ist kein Vielfaches der Länge des kürzeren Objektes

Could anyone help me with the code?
I would greatly appreciate it.
Sincerely yours,
Vincent Laperrière.



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