Message-ID: <CACk-te0dCZZfuotVMUJ2W6pCPUqVUTk694gqzxXgBWQ5yq1Dag@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2013-02-05T21:16:43Z
From: Bert Gunter
Subject: Non linear programming: choose R that minimizes corr(y, x^R)
In-Reply-To: <51112E8E020000CB000D7EAC@smtp.medicine.umaryland.edu>
If you really mean "minimize" and not "maximize," I doubt that any
such R exists.
-- Bert
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:08 PM, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> I am looking for a package that will allow me to choose R (a real number) that minimizes the correlation of y and x^R, i.e.
> find R such that corr(y,x^R) is minimized. Any suggestions for packages I might look at would be helpful.
> Thanks,
> John
>
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