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Hi, I am having trouble using constrOptim. My target is to do a portfolio optimization and there some constraints have to be fulfilled. 1) The weight of each share of the portfolio has to be greater than 0 2) The sum of these weights has to be 1 I am able to fulfill either the first or the second constraint but not both. One simple way would be to fulfill the first constraint by using optim as

Dear list members, I am trying to get information on how to fit a linear regression with constrained parameters. Specifically, I have 8 predictors , their coeffiecients should all be non-negative and add up to 1. I understand it is a quadratic programming problem but I have no experience in the subject. I searched the archives but the results were inconclusive. Could someone provide suggestions

Dear R Users, I am looking for some guidance on setting up an optimisation in R with non-linear constraints. Here is my simple problem: - I have a function h(inputs) whose value I would like to maximise - the 'inputs' are subject to lower and upper bounds - however, I have some further constraints: I would like to constrain the values for two other separate function f(inputs) and

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, I was just wondering if there was any available R code that could handle general constrained optimisation problems. At the moment I'm using nlminb and optim, both of which allow box constraints on the parameters, but ideally I'd like to be able to specify more general constraints on the solution

i want to estimate parameters with maximum likelihood method with contraints (contant numbers). for example sum(Ai)=0 and sum(Bi)=0 i have done it without the constraints but i realised that i have to use the contraints. Without constraints(just a part-not complete): skellamreg_LL=function(parameters,z,design) { n=length(z); mu=parameters[1]; H=parameters[2]; Apar=parameters[3:10];

Hi, I'm trying to do some constrained non-linear optimisation, but my function does not have second order derivatives everywhere. To be a little more specific (the actual function is huge and horrible, so it would probably be better to just describe it) my model has four variables and I'm using optim to minimise an error term. My data is split into discreet days and I have two types of

Hello. I have searched the archives but have not found anything. I need to solve a constrained optimisation problem for a nonlinear function (“maximum entropy formalism”). Specifically, Optimise: -1*SUM(p_ilog(p_i)) for a vector p_i of probabilities, conditional on a series of constraints of the form: SUM(T_i*p_i)=k_i for given values of T_i and k_i (these are constraints on

Hello, I need to solve a non-linear optimization with non-linear constraints. The 'nlm' routine does not seem to allow constraints. Is there a package for solving such problems in R? Thanks, John. -- ========================================== John Janmaat Department of Economics Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, B0P 1X0 (902)585-1461 All opinions stated are personal, unless

Hi, i have to optimise a function f(a,b), with a, b vectors in R^d such that a and b are orthogonal, that is a'b=0. Anybody has a suggestion? Thanks, in advance, for your help, Giovanna _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm relatively new to R, but I'm attempting to do a non-linear maximum likelihood estimation (mle) in R, with the added problem that I have a non-linear constraint. The basic problem is linear in the parameters (a_i) and has only one non-linear component, b, with the problem being linear when b = 0 and non-linear otherwise. Furthermore, f(a_i) <= b <= g(a_i) for some (simple) f

Dear R users, I have a problem. I would like to solve the following: I have pL = 1/(1+e^(-b0+b1)) pM = 1/(1+e^(-b0)) pH = 1/(1+e^(-b0-b1)) My target function is TF= mean(pL,pM,pH) which must equal 0.5% My non-linear constraint is nl.Const = 1-(pM/pH), which must equal 20%, and would like the values of both b0 and b1 where these conditions are met. I have searched widely for an answer,

Hi, At present, i have two distinct and real values for the coefficient, which is  required in AR(2) model. Based on my revision, for distinct and real values of the coefficients in AR(2) model, the correlation structure separated by lag h can be computed by p(h) = a*z1^(-h) + b*z2^(h), where p(h) is the autocorrelation separated by lag h, a and b can be determined by initial values, z1 and z2

Hi there, I have a piece of Matlab code I use to optimise a trding strategy. If there are any Matlab/R specialists out there, I would appreciate your help in doing the exact same optimisation in R. I suspect I would use nlm() in R but am not sure where to define my constraints. I have attached my Matlab code below for reference. Many thanks. Constraints function [c,ceq]=TriskellConstraints(X)

Dear helpers, I am using the function "constrOptim" to estimate a model with ML with an inequality constraint using the option method='Nelder-Mead'. When I specify the option: hessian = TRUE I obtain the response: Error in f(theta, ...) : unused argument(s) (hessian = TRUE) I guess the function "constrOptim" does not allow this argument which, on the other hand, is

After a few days of work, I think I nearly have it. Unfortunately, theta is unchanged after I run this (as a script from a file). I thought that theta would contain the fitted parameters. The goal here is to find the least squares fit according to the function defined as "rss" subject to the constraints defined as ui and ci. I defined ui and ci to (hopefully) force par2 and par3

Dear All, I would like to minimise a nonlinear function subject to linear inequality constraints as part of an R program. I have been using the constrOptim function. I have tried all of the methods that come with Optim, but nothing finds the correct solution. If I use the correct solution as the vector of starting values, though, my program does output the correct solution and optimum - the

R: I need to minimize a function such that the parameters when used in another function result in a particular value, which i fix. That is, I need min(f(a,b)) given g(a,b)=X, where min(.) is the minimum, f(.) and g(.) are functions (with unknown gradients) of parameters a and b and X is a fixed value. What optimization function(s) in R do you suggest? constrOptim looks like it will work

Hello, I've got to compute a minimization equation under an equality constraint (Min g(x1,x2,x3) with x1+x2=const). The Constroptim function does not authorize an equality condition but only inequality conditions. Which function can I use instead? Thank you very much for your help. Gael Robert - +33 1 42 14 27 96 ****************************************************************** This

i have a function like 1+sin(a+bx) where -pi/2<=a+bx<=pi/2 i made a progrom using constrOptim() function but it is not giving good result. it depends on the initial value. but when i am doing simulation it is impossible of find the best initial value for every step. also i am not exactly sure how to input the restriction though i have read the help file of the function. here x is a set of

I am trying to maximise a complicated loglikelihood function with the "optim" command. Is there some way to get to know the estiamtes at each iteration? When I put "control=list(trace=TRUE)" as an option in "optim", I just got the initial and final values of the loglikelihood, number of iterations and whether the routine has converged or not. I need to know the