Robert Kern wrote:
We have several bounded optimization routines in scipy. http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html
Hi Robert, Thanks for the lead .. I briefly looked at the documentation, but before I dig into this more deeply 2 quick questions: 1. Will is also allow me to maximize a function (I only saw minimum)? 2. Will it give me the global minima/maxima? I only ask because I got all excited to see that R has an optimize function but unfortunately it can not deal with multi-modal functions. I am trying to come up with some complex test cases for a genetic algorithm I'm working with, both for functions using f(x) and f(x,y) over a variety of intervals so I would like to have a way to verify results for more challenging functions. Thanks a lot, Esmail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
