Re: [R] "Heuristic optimisation"?

2008-10-15 Thread paulandpen
Ajay, Bayesm deals with this very issue in choice modelling (a form of econometric modelling as outlined in the article). I think those guys (the developers of Bayesm) and the apprach they recommend for navigating the likelihood function through a bayesian approachs makes a lot of sense to me,

Re: [R] "Heuristic optimisation"?

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Ajay Shah mayin.org> writes: > > I wondered was people on this list felt about this article: > http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2363 > which talks about the problems of obtaining sound answers in numerical > optimisation in settings such as MLE or NLS. It seems perfectly reasonable (it

[R] "Heuristic optimisation"?

2008-10-15 Thread Ajay Shah
I wondered was people on this list felt about this article: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2363 which talks about the problems of obtaining sound answers in numerical optimisation in settings such as MLE or NLS. -- Ajay Shah http://www.mayin.org/ajays