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...into exp(20.59), at which point everything in my function goes heywire and it wants to return NA. now nlm() barfs...and I am seriously consider grid-searching. This does not strike me as particular intelligent. are there any intelligent optimizers that understand domains and/or will "backstep" gracefully when they encounter an NA? are there better ways to deal with matching second moments? advice appreciated. regards, /iaw PS: you probably don't want to know this, but I have a dynamic panel data set; and my goal is to test whether a constant auto-coefficient across un...

Hi! What is the preferred way to make database lookups from within the dialplan? I only know the MYSQL function from asterisk-addons. Are the other methods too? (e.g. for postgresql, unixodbc) thanks klaus