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Re: TNMIN limits [message #57092 is a reply to message #57087]

Tue, 04 December 2007 05:22

jameskuyper
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Registered: October 2007

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biophys wrote:
> Hi, Brain
>
> Thanks for bringing my attention to amoeba. The function I'm
> minimizing contains infinite summation of integral terms containing
> Gamma functions and Bessel functions etc. My TNMIN minimization
> converges better with derivatives provided than without. But it is
> definitely worth to give it a shot with amoeba. Its reflection
> contraction scheme seems to be a very efficient way of marching toward
> convergence.

Efficient is not the right word; when other methods work, amoeba is
almost always slower than those other methods. The great advantage of
amoeba isn't it's efficiency, but its reliability. It will work on
problems that most other methods can't handle.

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		Re: TNMIN limits By: Brian Larsen on Tue, 04 December 2007 06:56
		Re: TNMIN limits By: jameskuyper on Tue, 04 December 2007 05:22
		Re: TNMIN limits By: biophys on Mon, 03 December 2007 23:27
		Re: TNMIN limits By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 03 December 2007 06:36
		Re: TNMIN limits By: d.poreh on Mon, 03 December 2007 05:43
		Re: TNMIN limits By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 03 December 2007 05:12
		Re: TNMIN limits By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 03 December 2007 05:08
		Re: TNMIN limits By: d.poreh on Tue, 04 December 2007 09:15

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