simulate_nls: Simulate fitted values from an object of class 'nls'

In nlraa: Nonlinear Regression for Agricultural Applications

Simulate fitted values from an object of class nls

Description

Simulate values from an object of class nls.

Usage

simulate_nls(
  object,
  nsim = 1,
  psim = 1,
  resid.type = c("none", "resample", "normal", "wild"),
  value = c("matrix", "data.frame"),
  data = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object	object of class nls
nsim	number of simulations to perform
psim	parameter simulation level, 0: for fitted values, 1: for simulation from fixed parameters (assuming a fixed vcov matrix), 2: simulation from sampling both from the parameters and the residuals, 3: for simulation considering the uncertainty in the residual standard error only (sigma) and fixing the parameter estimates at their original value; this will result in simulations similar to the observed values.
resid.type	either ‘none’, “resample”, “normal” or “wild”.
value	either ‘matrix’ or ‘data.frame’
data	the data argument is needed when using this function inside user defined functions.
...	additional arguments (it is possible to supply a newdata this way)

Details

This function is based on predict.gnls function

It uses function mvrnorm to generate new values for the coefficients of the model using the Variance-Covariance matrix vcov. This variance-covariance matrix refers to the one for the parameters ‘beta’, not the one for the residuals.

Value

It returns a vector with simulated values with length equal to the number of rows in the original data

Note

The default behavior is that simulations are perfomed for the mean function only. When ‘psim = 2’ this function will silently choose ‘resample’ as the ‘resid.type’. This is not ideal design for this function, but I made this choice for compatibility with other types of simulation originating from glm and gam.

See Also

predict.gnls, predict_nls

Examples

data(barley, package = "nlraa")

fit <- nls(yield ~ SSlinp(NF, a, b, xs), data = barley)

sim <- simulate_nls(fit, nsim = 100)

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