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<h3 class="section">1.6 Alternative frontend for gradient-less algorithms</h3>
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<dt><a name="index-fmins"></a>Function File: <em>[<var>x</var>] =</em> <strong>fmins</strong> <em>(<var>f</var>,<var>X0</var>,<var>options</var>,<var>grad</var>,<var>P1</var>,<var>P2</var>, ...)</em></dt>
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<p>Find the minimum of a funtion of several variables.
By default the method used is the Nelder&Mead Simplex algorithm
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<p>Example usage:
fmins(inline(’(x(1)-5).^2+(x(2)-8).^4’),[0;0])
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<p><strong>Inputs</strong>
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<dt><var>f</var></dt>
<dd><p>A string containing the name of the function to minimize
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<dt><var>X0</var></dt>
<dd><p>A vector of initial parameters fo the function <var>f</var>.
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<dt><var>options</var></dt>
<dd><p>Vector with control parameters (not all parameters are used)
</p><pre class="verbatim">options(1) - Show progress (if 1, default is 0, no progress)
options(2) - Relative size of simplex (default 1e-3)
options(6) - Optimization algorithm
if options(6)==0 - Nelder & Mead simplex (default)
if options(6)==1 - Multidirectional search Method
if options(6)==2 - Alternating Directions search
options(5)
if options(6)==0 && options(5)==0 - regular simplex
if options(6)==0 && options(5)==1 - right-angled simplex
Comment: the default is set to "right-angled simplex".
this works better for me on a broad range of problems,
although the default in nmsmax is "regular simplex"
options(10) - Maximum number of function evaluations
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<dt><var>grad</var></dt>
<dd><p>Unused (For compatibility with Matlab)
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