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Re: Optimization packages for Mathematica: do they exist?

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Subject: [mg14290] Re: Optimization packages for Mathematica: do they exist?
From: Robert Knapp <rknapp>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:21:10 -0400
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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Michael Rutter wrote:
> 
> Does a Mathematica package exist that uses Quasi-Newton algorithms for
> optimization?  I need a package that allows for the minimization of a
> objective function that is not based on least squares, but maximum
> likelihoods.
> 

FindMinimum with the options Method->QuasiNewton uses the BFGS
quasi-newton algorithm.

Rob Knapp
WRI

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