[R] Linear Model with curve fitting parameter?

[Steven McKinney]

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> Subject: [R] Linear Model with curve fitting parameter?
> 
> I have a model Q=K*A*(R^r)*(S^s)
> 
> A, R, and S are data I have and K is a curve fitting parameter.  I
> have linearized as
> 
> log(Q)=log(K)+log(A)+r*log(R)+s*log(S)
> 
> I have taken the log of the data that I have and this is the model
> formula without the K part
> 
> lm(Q~offset(A)+R+S, data=x)
> 
> What is the formula that I should use?

Let Z = Q - A for your logged data.

Fitting lm(Z ~ R + S, data = x) should yield
intercept parameter estimate = estimate for log(K)
R coefficient parameter estimate = estimate for r
S coefficient parameter estimate = estimate for s



Steven McKinney

Statistician
Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre



> 
> Thanks for all of your help.  I can provide a subset of data if necessary.
> 
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