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Subject: Problems with "uniroot"
From: gerald.jean@dgag.ca
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:37:23 -0400
Hello,

I am struggling to find the root of a non-linear monotone function.
"uniroot" is complaining about a missing argument?

> uniroot(f = SeuilGamma, lower = 440, upper = 450,
+         f.lower = -0.2724897, f.upper = 7.515328,
+         mu = 7462.83, shape = 0.4475635, rate = 5.997237e-05, k = 0.05)

Problem in f(440.349892242598, mu = 7462.83, shape = 0.44..: argument "k"
is missing with no default
Use traceback() to see the call stack

> traceback()

11: eval(action, sys.parent())
10: doErrorAction("Problem in f(440.349892242598, mu = 7462.83, shape =
0.44..: argument \"k\" is missing with no default",
9: pgamma(x, shape + 1, rate) - k
8: mu * (pgamma(x, shape + 1, rate) - k)
7: mu * (pgamma(x, shape + 1, rate) - k) + x * (1 - pgamma(x, shape, rate))
6: f(440.349892242598, mu = 7462.83, shape = 0.4475635, rate =
5.997237e-05)
5: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
4: do.call("f", c(list(old$z), newdots))
3: uniroot.1k(f, temp, newargs(dots, fnames, temp$aux))
2: uniroot(f = SeuilGamma, lower = 440, upper = 450, f.lower = -0.2724897,
f.upper = 7.515328,
1:
Message: Problem in f(440.349892242598, mu = 7462.83, shape = 0.44..:
argument "k" is missing with no default

and here is my fonction "GammaSeuil".

"SeuilGamma" <- function(x, mu, shape, rate, k)
{
 mu * (pgamma(x, shape + 1, rate) - k) + x * (1 - pgamma(x, shape, rate))
}

I know I could pretty easily find the zero by other means but I have to do
this several thousand of times and it would be nice if it could be done by
a builtin function.  There is something I must be missing since I never had
luck with "uniroot"!

Thanks,

Gérald Jean
Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat
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