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Alternative to nlm()
2 messages · Marion Wittmann, Dieter Menne
Marion Wittmann <mwittmann <at> bren.ucsb.edu> writes:
I am using the nlm function in a minimization exercise but have consistently received the code: "last global step failed to locate a point lower than 'estimate'...."
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So it seems that this function is only finding a local minimum, not necessarily a global minimum.
... Try ?optim which has a few methods with a somewhat broader scope. Dieter