Re: Does FindFit really use Norm[] when NormFunction -> Norm?
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- Subject: [mg98365] Re: Does FindFit really use Norm[] when NormFunction -> Norm?
- From: Szabolcs HorvÃt <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 02:45:28 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <34b6e3d4-6741-4ee7-8b1f-12e6fcadd2a5@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
2009/4/6 Darren Glosemeyer <darreng at wolfram.com>: > > This has been pointed out to the developer for further consideration. > > What's happening now is that Norm is getting caught and the internal code > uses default code (mathematically equivalent nonlinear least squares > optimization code) which runs into some complexes in intermediate > calculations. The Abs@Norm or myNorm NormFunction settings do not get caught > and the complexes are not encountered. > Thanks for the reply! If it is not actually using Norm internally, then perhaps a default setting of NormFunction -> Automatic or something similar would be less confusing. Szabolcs