fit with cdf of skew normal distriubtion
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- Subject: [mg112131] fit with cdf of skew normal distriubtion
- From: Tom Pether <pethert at googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:27:47 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, to am trying to fit the integral of the skew normal distribution to a set of data. xhis is my fit function: upperlimit[x_, y0_, p2_, a_] = p2 (1 - (x/y0)^(1/a)); f[x_, y0_, a_, p2_, s_, skew_, A_, b_, p_] := b - 2 A NIntegrate[ PDF[NormalDistribution[p, s], x] CDF[ NormalDistribution[p*skew, s], (skew*x)], {x, -100, uperlimit[x, y0, p2, a]}, MaxPoints -> 200, MaxRecursion -> 6, PrecisionGoal -> 4]; then i call the fit by FitResult = NonlinearModelFit[data, f[x, y0, a, p2, s, skew, A, b, p], init, {index, t}, Weights -> weights, VarianceEstimatorFunction -> Automatic, PrecisionGoal -> 4]; if i then want to get error estimates for the fit parameters by calling FitResult["ParameterTable"] i get the following error messages (and no error estimates): General::stop: Further output of NIntegrate::nlim will be suppressed during this calculation. >> Function::slotn: Slot number 2 in FittedModels`NonlinearFitDump`cnf[{T0,a,pc,s,skew},<<1>>,{},Sequence@@{WorkingPrecision->MachinePrecision}]/.FittedModels`NonlinearFitDump`cnf-><<36>>& cannot be filled from (<<1>>)[##1]. >> Function::slotn: Slot number 2 in FittedModels`NonlinearFitDump`cnf[{T0,a,pc,s,skew},<<1>>,{},Sequence@@{WorkingPrecision->MachinePrecision}]/.FittedModels`NonlinearFitDump`cnf-><<36>>& cannot be filled from (<<1>>)[##1]. >> Power::infy: Infinite expression 1/0. encountered. >> Power::infy: Infinite expression 1/0. encountered. >> Power::infy: Infinite expression 1/0. encountered. >> General::stop: Further output of Power::infy will be suppressed during this calculation. >> \[Infinity]::indet: Indeterminate expression 0. ComplexInfinity encountered. >> \[Infinity]::indet: Indeterminate expression 0. ComplexInfinity encountered. >> \[Infinity]::indet: Indeterminate expression 0. ComplexInfinity encountered. >> General::stop: Further output of \[Infinity]::indet will be suppressed during this calculation. >> does anybody have any idea how to fix this? if i do a fit with CDF[NormalDistribution...] it works well. with my "self made" CDF f[] it doesn't... i am stuck here. thanks in advance tom