Objective Function and Derivatives The input argument fun refers to an IML module that specifies a function that returns f, a vector of length m for least-squares subroutines or a scalar for other ...

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Kenneth Lange, David R. Hunter, Ilsoon Yang, Optimization Transfer Using Surrogate Objective Functions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 9, No ...