Articles by anspiess

Monte Carlo-based prediction intervals for nonlinear regression

May 11, 2018 | anspiess

Calculation of the propagated uncertainty using (1), where is the gradient and the covariance matrix of the coefficients , is called the “Delta Method” and is widely applied in nonlinear least-squares (NLS) fitting. However, this method is based on first-order Taylor expansion and thus assummes linearity around . The second-order approach can partially ...
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Introducing: Orthogonal Nonlinear Least-Squares Regression in R

January 17, 2015 | anspiess

With this post I want to introduce my newly bred ‘onls’ package which conducts Orthogonal Nonlinear Least-Squares Regression (ONLS): http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/onls/index.html. Orthogonal nonlinear least squares (ONLS) is a not so frequently applied and maybe overlooked regression technique that comes into question when one ...
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Error propagation based on interval arithmetics

September 27, 2014 | anspiess

I added an interval function to my ‘propagate’ package (now on CRAN) that conducts error propagation based on interval arithmetics. It calculates the uncertainty of a model by using interval arithmetics based on (what I call) a “combinatorial sequence grid evaluation” approach, thereby avoiding the classical dependency problem that often ... [Read more...]

I’ll take my NLS with weights, please…

January 13, 2014 | anspiess

Today I want to advocate weighted nonlinear regression. Why so? Minimum-variance estimation of the adjustable parameters in linear and non-linear least squares requires that the data be weighted inversely as their variances . Only then is the BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased Estimator) for linear regression and nonlinear regression with small errors (... [Read more...]

Introducing ‘propagate’

August 31, 2013 | anspiess

With this post, I want to introduce the new ‘propagate’ package on CRAN. It has one single purpose: propagation of uncertainties (“error propagation”). There is already one package on CRAN available for this task, named ‘metRology’ (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metRology/index.html). ‘propagate’ has some additional functionality ... [Read more...]

Trivial, but useful: sequences with defined mean/s.d.

July 31, 2013 | anspiess

O.k., the following post may be (mathematically) trivial, but could be somewhat useful for people that do simulations/testing of statistical methods. Let’s say we want to test the dependence of p-values derived from a t-test to a) the ratio of means between two groups, b) the standard ... [Read more...]

bigcor: Large correlation matrices in R

February 22, 2013 | anspiess

As I am working with large gene expression matrices (microarray data) in my job, it is sometimes important to look at the correlation in gene expression of different genes. It has been shown that by calculating the Pearson correlation between genes, one can identify (by high values, i.e. __ 0.9) genes ... [Read more...]

The magic empty bracket

January 30, 2013 | anspiess

I have been working with R for some time now, but once in a while, basic functions catch my eye that I was not aware of… For some project I wanted to transform a correlation matrix into a covariance matrix. Now, since cor2cov does not exist, I thought about “... [Read more...]

Peer-reviewed R packages?

November 22, 2012 | anspiess

Dear R-Users, a question: I am the author of the ‘qpcR’ package. Within this, there is a function ‘propagate’ that does error propagation based on Monte Carlo Simulation, permutation-based confidence intervals and Taylor expansion. For the latter I recently implemented a second-order Taylor expansion term that can correct for nonlinearity. ... [Read more...]

A weighting function for ‘nls’ / ‘nlsLM’

July 19, 2012 | anspiess

Standard nonlinear regression assumes homoscedastic data, that is, all response values are distributed normally.  In case of heteroscedastic data (i.e. when the variance is dependent on the magnitude of the data), weighting the fit is essential. In nls (or nlsLM of the minpack.lm package), weighting can be conducted ... [Read more...]

A better ‘nls’ (?)

July 5, 2012 | anspiess

Those that do a lot of nonlinear regression will love the nls function of R. In most of the cases it works really well, but there are some mishaps that can occur when using bad starting values for the parameters. One of the most dreaded is the “singular gradient matrix ... [Read more...]

Don’t recycle me!

June 19, 2012 | anspiess

For me, one of the most annoying features of R is that by default, rbind,  cbind  and data.frame recycle the shorter vector to the length of the longer vector. I still don’t understand why the standard generics don’t have a parameter like cbind(1:10, 1:5, fill = TRUE) to fill ... [Read more...]

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