Hi I need help figure out how to fix my code.
When I call into R >optimize(llik,init.params=F) I get this error message ####Error in optimize(llik, init.params = F) : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'min' being evaluated was: (interval)#### My data and my code looks like below. R_j R_m 0.002 0.026567296 0.01 0.003194435 . . . . . . . . 0.0006 0.010281122 a=read.table("D:/ff.txt",header=T) attach(a) llik=function(R_j,R_m) #The parameters al_j, au_j, b_j , and sigma_j need to be estimated and there are no initial estimates to them. if(R_j< 0) { LF=sum[log(1/(2*pi*(sigma_j^2)))-(1/(2*(sigma_j^2))*(R_j+al_j-b_j*R_m))^2] }else if(R_j>0) { LF=sum[log(1/(2*pi*(sigma_j^2)))-(1/(2*(sigma_j^2))*(R_j+au_j-b_j*R_m))^2] }else { LF=sum[(log(pnorm((au_j-b_j*R_m)/sigma_j)-pnorm((al_j-b_j*R_m)/sigma_j)))] } optimize(llik,init.params=F) Error in optimize(llik, init.params = F) : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'min' being evaluated was: (interval) Thank you Edward ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.