Re: FindMinimum
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- Subject: [mg6990] Re: FindMinimum
- From: daiyanh at mindspring.com (Daitaro Hagihara)
- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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In article <5j758o$5nu at smc.vnet.net>, Sean Ross <SEAN at mail.creol.ucf.edu> wrote: > observation: FindMinimum rarely changes more than one parameter at a time. It > usually minimizes first changing only x, then changing only y, then changing only > z etc. Only occasionally will it make a guess by changing two parameters. My usual amateuristic comments... You probably have stiff set of equations. That's the reason why only one coordinate with the largest derivative is changing at a time. This is readily seen in Davidon-Fletcher-Powell method (as in NR). I personally don't know any algorithm out there that does what you describe (but I'm no pro in this either). Daitaro Hagihara