> The problem is that I can't tell the Nelder-Mead that the smallest jump > it should attempt is .5. I can set xtol to .5, but it still attemps jumps > of .001 in its initial jumps.
This is strange. It should not if the intiial points are set adequatly. You may want to check if the initial conditions make the optimization start at correct locations. > Of course optimization on integers is > fairly ill-posed, so I am asking for trouble. Indeed :D That's why GA can be a good solution as well. Matthieu -- Information System Engineer, Ph.D. Blog: http://matt.eifelle.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
