(Michael) Powell (of Harwell and Cambridge) invented several optimization
methods. You will need to give us a precise reference.
Powell is associated with earlier versions of the Nelder-Mead, CG and BFGS
methods implemented in optim() but in each case different variants have
best stood the course of time.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Tolga Uzuner wrote:
> Has anyone implemented Powell's Method for minimisation in R ?
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