Well, there is a difference between finding a root, and finding a
minimum or a maximum. So you would use one or the other depending on
which you need to do.
-Don
At 7:00 PM -0800 11/19/09, <rkevinburton at charter.net>
wrote:>I looked at the descriptions for uniroot and optimize and they are
>somewhat different but the book reference is the same and I am
>wondering if there are reasons to pick one over the other?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Kevin
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