NonlinearFit: Parameter range not working ??
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- Subject: [mg21183] NonlinearFit: Parameter range not working ??
- From: B Hamond <b_hamond at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:23:37 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: None
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello,
I'm using NonlinearFit (actually NonlinearRegress) to fit a function to
some data points. Some of the parameters must not fall below 0, so I
specified the parameters as {symbol, start, min,max} with min being
zero. However, NonlinearFit seems to ignore the range specification and
keeps assigning negative values to the parameter while it's trying to
find the best fit. But then of course it stops with an error message
like: Objective function is not real at {i,g}={-2.2x10^-6, 0.1}.
What am I doing wrong ?
Btw. this is with Mathematica 4 under Windows NT.
Axel Kowald
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