Re: [R] [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

2010-06-17 Thread Rubén Roa
De: Chris Gast [mailto:cmg...@gmail.com] Enviado el: jueves, 17 de junio de 2010 22:32 Para: Rubén Roa CC: r-help@r-project.org; us...@admb-project.org Asunto: Re: [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

Re: [R] [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Gast
I spoke with my colleague who did most of the testing, and he has informed me that much of the hessian sensitivity actually came from a separate program (based on Numerical Recipes in C++ code) that did not use optim(), after having stopped using optim() due to speed issues. In my experience with

Re: [R] [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Gast
As an additional note, the parscale argument can be useful to improve stability in convergence results in optim(). Chris - Chris Gast cmg...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Chris Gast wrote: > I spoke with my colleague who did most of the testing, and

Re: [R] [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

2010-06-16 Thread Rubén Roa
De: users-boun...@admb-project.org [mailto:users-boun...@admb-project.org] En nombre de Chris Gast Enviado el: miércoles, 16 de junio de 2010 21:11 Para: Arni Magnusson CC: r-help@r-project.org; us...@admb-project.org Asunto: Re: [ADMB Users] an alternative to R f

Re: [R] [ADMB Users] an alternative to R for nonlinear stat models

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Gast
Hi Arni (and others), My dissertation work involves use (and extension) of models of the same ilk (sometimes exactly the same) as those described by Nancy Gove and John Skalski in their 2002 article. I began with R, and moved to my own home-brewed C/C++ programs for the sake of of speed when fitt