ASA047
Nelder-Mead Minimization


ASA047 is a FORTRAN90 library which seeks to minimize a scalar function of several variables using the Nelder-Mead algorithm, by R ONeill.

ASA047 is Applied Statistics Algorithm 47.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

ASA047 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Author:

Original FORTRAN77 version by R ONeill; FORTRAN90 version by John Burkardt.

Reference:

  1. John Nelder, Roger Mead,
    A simplex method for function minimization,
    Computer Journal,
    Volume 7, 1965, pages 308-313.
  2. R ONeill,
    Algorithm AS 47: Function Minimization Using a Simplex Procedure,
    Applied Statistics,
    Volume 20, Number 3, 1971, pages 338-345.

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Last revised on 20 December 2011.