Folks: I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible Fortunes candidate: (Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on this list, not just stochastic optimization.)
Cheers, Bert ... (in the context of stochastic optimization) >... As with many tools in this domain, for effective use they > require more knowledge than many of their users possess, and can be dangerous > because they > seem to "work". > > JN > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
