RE: [NMusers] How serious are negative eigenvalues?

2010-09-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Nick, Thanks for your comments. We (+ Andreas Steingötter + Rickmer Braren) are more rooted in physiology, physics, and statistics, so critical response from the PK marked is highly appreciated. You wrote: On the other hand if the goal is to estimate the size of one or more critical

Re: [NMusers] Negative eigenvalues, over-paramterization, finding most sensitive parameter

2010-09-07 Thread Leonid Gibiansky
Andreas, I doubt that one can give a general answer (without looking on the specific model) but here is my understanding of the situation: In over-parametrized models, there is one or more degenerate directions (in the parameter space) where changes of the parameters do not change the fit