<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>mkinerrmin. mkin 0.9.43</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="author" content=""> <link href="css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="css/highlight.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="css/staticdocs.css" rel="stylesheet"> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> <![endif]--> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ], processEscapes: true } }); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"> </script> </head> <body> <div class="navbar"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <div class="container"> <a class="brand" href="#">mkin 0.9.43</a> <div class="nav"> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="index.html"><i class="icon-home icon-white"></i> Index</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <header> </header> <h1> Calculate the minimum error to assume in order to pass the variance test </h1> <div class="row"> <div class="span8"> <h2>Usage</h2> <pre><div>mkinerrmin(fit, alpha = 0.05)</div></pre> <h2>Arguments</h2> <dl> <dt>fit</dt> <dd> an object of class <code><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></code>. </dd> <dt>alpha</dt> <dd> The confidence level chosen for the chi-squared test. </dd> </dl> <div class="Description"> <h2>Description</h2> <p>This function uses <code><a href='http://www.inside-r.org/r-doc/stats/optimize'>optimize</a></code> in order to iteratively find the smallest relative error still resulting in passing the chi-squared test as defined in the FOCUS kinetics report from 2006.</p> </div> <div class="Value"> <h2>Value</h2> <p><dl> A dataframe with the following components: <dt>err.min</dt><dd>The relative error, expressed as a fraction.</dd></p> <p><dt>n.optim</dt><dd>The number of optimised parameters attributed to the data series.</dd></p> <p><dt>df</dt><dd>The number of remaining degrees of freedom for the chi2 error level calculations. Note that mean values are used for the chi2 statistic and therefore every time point with observed values in the series only counts one time.</dd></p> <p>The dataframe has one row for the total dataset and one further row for each observed state variable in the model. </dl></p> </div> <div class="Details"> <h2>Details</h2> <p>This function is used internally by <code><a href='summary.mkinfit.html'>summary.mkinfit</a></code>.</p> </div> <div class="References"> <h2>References</h2> <p>FOCUS (2006) “Guidance Document on Estimating Persistence and Degradation Kinetics from Environmental Fate Studies on Pesticides in EU Registration” Report of the FOCUS Work Group on Degradation Kinetics, EC Document Reference Sanco/10058/2005 version 2.0, 434 pp, <a href = 'http://focus.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dk'>http://focus.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dk</a></p> </div> <h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> <pre class="examples"><div class='input'>SFO_SFO = mkinmod(parent = list(type = "SFO", to = "m1"), m1 = list(type = "SFO"), use_of_ff = "max") </div> <strong class='message'>Successfully compiled differential equation model from auto-generated C code.</strong> <div class='input'> fit_FOCUS_D = mkinfit(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, quiet = TRUE) round(mkinerrmin(fit_FOCUS_D), 4) </div> <div class='output'> err.min n.optim df All data 0.0640 4 15 parent 0.0646 2 7 m1 0.0469 2 8 </div> <div class='input'>fit_FOCUS_E = mkinfit(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_E, quiet = TRUE) round(mkinerrmin(fit_FOCUS_E), 4) </div> <div class='output'> err.min n.optim df All data 0.1544 4 13 parent 0.1659 2 7 m1 0.1095 2 6 </div></pre> </div> <div class="span4"> <!-- <ul> <li>mkinerrmin</li> </ul> <ul> <li> manip </li> </ul> --> </div> </div> <footer> <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p> <p>Built by <a href="https://github.com/hadley/staticdocs">staticdocs</a>. Styled with <a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap">bootstrap</a>.</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>