Minimization of chi square
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- Subject: [mg49025] Minimization of chi square
- From: mfific at ptt.yu (Mario Fific)
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:49:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mathematica 5.0 I have one minimization problem: objective function that is minimized (NMinimize) is chi-square. When try to find minimum first it reports that there is division by zero, and then returns complex indeterminate value and stops. I am sure that there is no zero value in denominator of chi-square, but I guess that the minimization algorithm tries with some paratmer values that makes the denominator value very close to zero. My guess is then that NMinimize drop the restriction for one of my parameters to be integer (I put that constraint) and then that this make minimization impossible. Note that when objective function to be minimized is sum of squared deviation (SSE which is practically the same function as chi-square but withouth problematic denominator) everything works fine. I would appreciate any suggestion in order to solve this problem and use chi-square for minimization. Mario