Hello all, I'm trying to use confint from the MASS package to compute confidence intervals for an nls object. When I plot the results, however, they don't make sense - lines cross over the fitted model or just don't match the data. Code is :
Thanks for help dat<-data.frame(a,b) with(dat, plot(a,b)) model<-(nls(b~(1/exp(a*x))*n, data=dat, start=list(x=.001,n=20), na.action="na.omit")) with(dat, plot(a,b)) x1<-summary(model)$coefficients[1,1] n1<-summary(model)$coefficients[2,1] lines((1/exp(c(0:30)*x1)*n1)) int<-MASS:::confint.nls(model) lines((1/exp(c(0:30)*int[1,1])*int[2,1]),lty=2) lines((1/exp(c(0:30)*int[2,1])*int[2,2]),lty=2) "","a" "1",NA "2",5.8 "3",5.15 "4",NA "5",5.7 "6",12.35 "7",10.9 "8",10.65 "9",18.7 "10",5.35 "11",12 "12",NA "13",14.8 "14",13.3 "15",15.6 "16",19.8 "17",NA "18",NA "19",NA "20",NA "21",NA "22",NA "23",NA "24",NA "25",NA "26",NA "27",NA "28",NA "29",7.1 "30",NA "31",NA "32",15.15 "33",NA "34",11.6 "35",NA "36",NA "37",6.35 "38",18.45 "39",16.65 "40",NA "41",9.8 "42",7.35 "43",7.35 "44",11.55 "45",18.1 "46",5.65 "47",4.25 "48",NA "49",6.45 "50",5.2 "51",5.45 "52",NA "53",NA "54",9.8 "55",6.35 "56",21.95 "57",NA "58",NA "59",11.4 "60",NA "61",NA "62",10.65 "63",NA "64",NA "65",4.8 "66",7.35 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