[R] Question concerning mle

2006-06-15 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I hope this is the right forum - if not, point me please to a better one. I am using R 2.3.0 on Linux, SuSE 10. I have a question concerning mle (method="BFGS"). I have a few models which I am fitting to existing data points. I realised, that the likelihood is quite sensitive to the start v

Re: [R] Question concerning mle

2006-06-17 Thread Spencer Graves
It's difficult to say much at this level of generality, but I have four suggestions: 1. Have you tried creating a reasonable grid of starting values using "expand.grid" and then plotting the resulting likelihood surface? If you have more than 2 parameters, you may want to

Re: [R] Question concerning mle

2006-06-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Thanks a lot Spencer for your tips - I'll look into all of them. Rainer Spencer Graves wrote: > It's difficult to say much at this level of generality, but I have > four suggestions: > > 1. Have you tried creating a reasonable grid of starting values > using "expand.grid" and then p