| plot.profile.nls {stats} | R Documentation | 
Displays a series of plots of the profile t function and interpolated
confidence intervals for the parameters in a nonlinear regression
model that has been fit with nls and profiled with
profile.nls.
## S3 method for class 'profile.nls':
plot(x, levels, conf= c(99, 95, 90, 80, 50)/100,
     nseg = 50, absVal =TRUE, ...)
x | 
an object of class "profile.nls"  | 
levels | 
levels, on the scale of the absolute value of a t
statistic, at which to interpolate intervals.  Usually conf
is used instead of giving levels explicitly. | 
conf | 
a numeric vector of confidence levels for profile-based
confidence intervals on the parameters.  Defaults to c(0.99,
         0.95, 0.90, 0.80, 0.50). | 
nseg | 
an integer value giving the number of segments to use in the spline interpolation of the profile t curves. Defaults to 50. | 
absVal | 
a logical value indicating whether or not the plots
should be on the scale of the absolute value of the profile t.
Defaults to TRUE. | 
... | 
other arguments to the plot function can be passed here. | 
Douglas M. Bates and Saikat DebRoy
Bates, D.M. and Watts, D.G. (1988), Nonlinear Regression Analysis and Its Applications, Wiley (chapter 6)
# obtain the fitted object
fm1 <- nls(demand ~ SSasympOrig( Time, A, lrc ), data = BOD)
# get the profile for the fitted model
pr1 <- profile( fm1 )
opar <- par(mfrow = c(2,2), oma = c(1.1, 0, 1.1, 0), las = 1)
plot(pr1, conf = c(95, 90, 80, 50)/100)
plot(pr1, conf = c(95, 90, 80, 50)/100, absVal = FALSE)
mtext("Confidence intervals based on the profile sum of squares",
      side = 3, outer = TRUE)
mtext("BOD data - confidence levels of 50%, 80%, 90% and 95%",
      side = 1, outer = TRUE)
par(opar)