A toolbox for nonlinear regression in R: The package nlstools

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1-21

  Baty, Florent ^a   Ritz, Christian ^b   Charles, Sandrine ^c   Brutsche, Martin ^a   Flandrois, Jean Pierre ^c   Delignette Muller, Marie Laure ^c  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

6 minute walk test; Confidence regions; Diagnostic tools; Nonlinear regression; R; Resampling techniques; Residuals; Starting values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940497160     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v066.i05     Document Type: Article

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