SSmicmen package:stats R Documentation _M_i_c_h_a_e_l_i_s-_M_e_n_t_e_n _M_o_d_e_l _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n: This 'selfStart' model evaluates the Michaelis-Menten model and its gradient. It has an 'initial' attribute that will evaluate initial estimates of the parameters 'Vm' and 'K' _U_s_a_g_e: SSmicmen(input, Vm, K) _A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s: input: a numeric vector of values at which to evaluate the model. Vm: a numeric parameter representing the maximum value of the response. K: a numeric parameter representing the 'input' value at which half the maximum response is attained. In the field of enzyme kinetics this is called the Michaelis parameter. _V_a_l_u_e: a numeric vector of the same length as 'input'. It is the value of the expression 'Vm*input/(K+input)'. If both the arguments 'Vm' and 'K' are names of objects, the gradient matrix with respect to these names is attached as an attribute named 'gradient'. _A_u_t_h_o_r(_s): Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates _S_e_e _A_l_s_o: 'nls', 'selfStart' _E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s: PurTrt <- Puromycin[ Puromycin$state == "treated", ] SSmicmen( PurTrt$conc, 200, 0.05 ) # response only Vm <- 200; K <- 0.05 SSmicmen( PurTrt$conc, Vm, K ) # response and gradient getInitial(rate ~ SSmicmen(conc, Vm, K), data = PurTrt) ## Initial values are in fact the converged values fm1 <- nls(rate ~ SSmicmen(conc, Vm, K), data = PurTrt) summary( fm1 ) ## Alternative call using the subset argument fm2 <- nls(rate ~ SSmicmen(conc, Vm, K), data = Puromycin, subset = state == "treated") summary(fm2)