[R] How to calculate standard error of estimate (S) for my non-linear regression model?

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 18:20:29 CEST 2015


Michael:

You appear to be laboring under the illusion that a single numeric
summary (**any summary**)is a useful measure of model adequacy. It is
not; for details about why not, consult any applied statistics text
(e.g. on regression) and/or post on a statistics site, like
stats.stackexchange.com. Better yet, consult a local statistician.

Incidentally, this is even more the case for NON-linear models. Again,
consult appropriate statistical resources. Even googling on "R^2
inadequate for nonlinear models" brought up some interesting
resources, among them:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892436/

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
   -- Clifford Stoll


On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:56 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 16:46 , Michael Eisenring <michael.eisenring at gmx.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Peter,
>> Thank you for your answer.
>> If I look at my summary I see there a Residual standard error: 1394 on 53
>> degrees of freedom.
>> This number is very high (the fit of the curve is pretty bad I know but
>> still...). Are you sure the residual standard error given in the summary is
>> the same as the one described on this page:
>> http://onlinestatbook.com/2/regression/accuracy.html
>
> Sure I'm sure (& I did check!)... But notice that unlike R^2, Residual SE is not dimensionless. Switch from millimeters to meters in your response measure and the Residual SE instantly turns into 1.394. It's basically saying that your model claims to be able to predict Y within +/-2800 units. How good or bad that is, is your judgment.
>
>> I am basically just looking for a value that describes the goodness of fit
>> for my non-linear regression model.
>>
>>
>> This is probably a pretty obvious question, but I am not a statistician and
>> as you said the terminology is sometimes pretty confusing.
>> Thanks mike
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: peter dalgaard [mailto:pdalgd at gmail.com]
>> Gesendet: Samstag, 26. September 2015 01:43
>> An: Michael Eisenring <michael.eisenring at gmx.ch>
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Betreff: Re: [R] How to calculate standard error of estimate (S) for my
>> non-linear regression model?
>>
>> This is one area in which terminology in (computational) statistics has gone
>> a bit crazy. The thing some call "standard error of estimate" is actually
>> the residual standard deviation in the regression model, not to be confused
>> with the standard errors that are associated with parameter estimates. In
>> summary(nls(...)) (and summary(lm()) for that matter), you'll find it as
>> "residual standard error",  and even that is a bit of a misnomer.
>>
>> -pd
>>
>>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 07:08 , Michael Eisenring <michael.eisenring at gmx.ch>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am looking for something that indicates the goodness of fit for my
>>> non linear regression model (since R2 is not very reliable).
>>>
>>> I read that the standard error of estimate (also known as standard
>>> error of the regression) is a good alternative.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The standard error of estimate is described on this page (including
>>> the
>>> formula) http://onlinestatbook.com/2/regression/accuracy.html
>>> <https://3c.gmx.net/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fon
>>> linest atbook.com%2F2%2Fregression%2Faccuracy.html>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately however, I have no clue how to programm it in R. Does
>>> anyone know and could help me?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I added an example of my model and a dput() of my data
>>>
>>> #CODE
>>>
>>> dta<-read.csv("Regression_exp2.csv",header=T, sep = ",")
>>> attach(dta)      # tells R to do the following analyses on this dataset
>>> head(dta)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> # loading packages: analysis of mixed effect models
>>> library(nls2)#model
>>>
>>> #Aim: fit equation to data: y~yo+a*(1-b^x) : Two parameter exp. single
>>> rise to the maximum # y =Gossypol (from my data set) x= Damage_cm
>>> (from my data set) #The other 3 parameters are unknown: yo=Intercept,
>>> a= assymptote ans b=slope
>>>
>>> plot(Gossypol~Damage_cm, dta)
>>> # Looking at the plot, 0 is a plausible estimate for y0:
>>> # a+y0 is the asymptote, so estimate about 4000; # b is between 0 and
>>> 1, so estimate .5 dta.nls <- nls(Gossypol~y0+a*(1-b^Damage_cm), dta,
>>>              start=list(y0=0, a=4000, b=.5))
>>>
>>> xval <- seq(0, 10, 0.1)
>>> lines(xval, predict(dta.nls, data.frame(Damage_cm=xval)))
>>> profile(dta.nls, alpha= .05)
>>>
>>>
>>> summary(dta.nls)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> #INPUT
>>>
>>> structure(list(Gossypol = c(948.2418407, 1180.171957, 3589.187889,
>>> 450.7205451, 349.0864019, 592.3403778, 723.885643, 2005.919344,
>>> 720.9785449, 1247.806111, 1079.846532, 1500.863038, 4198.569251,
>>> 3618.448997, 4140.242559, 1036.331811, 1013.807628, 2547.326207,
>>> 2508.417927, 2874.651764, 1120.955, 1782.864308, 1517.045807,
>>> 2287.228752, 4171.427741, 3130.376482, 1504.491931, 6132.876396,
>>> 3350.203452, 5113.942098, 1989.576826, 3470.09352, 4576.787021,
>>> 4854.985845, 1414.161257, 2608.716056, 910.8879471, 2228.522959,
>>> 2952.931863, 5909.068158, 1247.806111, 6982.035521, 2867.610671,
>>> 5629.979049, 6039.995102, 3747.076592, 3743.331903, 4274.324792,
>>> 3378.151945, 3736.144027, 5654.858696, 5972.926124, 3723.629772,
>>> 3322.115942, 3575.043632, 2818.419785), Treatment = structure(c(5L,
>>> 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
>>> 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
>>> 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 4L,
>>> 4L, 4L, 4L, 2L), .Label = c("1c_2d", "1c_7d", "3c_2d", "9c_2d", "C"),
>>> class = "factor"), Damage_cm = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>>> 0.142, 0.4035, 0.4435, 0.491, 0.4955, 0.578, 0.5895, 0.6925, 0.6965,
>>> 0.756, 0.8295, 1.0475, 1.313, 1.516, 1.573, 1.62, 1.8115, 1.8185,
>>> 1.8595, 1.989, 2.129, 2.171, 2.3035, 2.411, 2.559, 2.966, 2.974,
>>> 3.211, 3.2665, 3.474, 3.51, 3.547, 4.023, 4.409, 4.516, 4.7245, 4.809,
>>> 4.9835, 5.568, 5.681, 5.683, 7.272, 8.043, 9.437, 9.7455),
>>> Damage_groups = c(0.278, 1.616, 2.501, 3.401, 4.577, 5.644, 7.272,
>>> 8.043, 9.591, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA),
>>> Gossypol_Averaged = c(1783.211, 3244.129, 2866.307, 3991.809,
>>> 4468.809, 5121.309, 3723.629772, 3322.115942, 3196.731, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), Groups = c(42006L, 42038L,
>>> 42067L, 42099L, 42130L, 42162L, 42193L, 42225L, 42257L, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
>>> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)), .Names = c("Gossypol",
>>> "Treatment", "Damage_cm", "Damage_groups", "Gossypol_Averaged",
>>> "Groups"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -56L))
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000
>> Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
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