Re: here is a parametric version of fsolve

[Craig Earls]

Heber Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> Craig,
>         Thanks for the fsolve replacement.  I haven't looked closely at it
> but I have a question.  Can the parameters be matrices?  The reason I'm
> asking is that my research is in statistics/econometrics and I frequently
> need to use fsolve to fit models to data.  I need to pass starting values
> to fsolve of course but I need to be able to pass one or more matrices of
> data as well.  The data is what you call parameters, that is the data
> determines the function that fsolve works on but the data cannot be
> changed by fsolve.
> 
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The extra parameters can be any legal octave value, the new fsolve
simply works by storing all the arguments after the independent variable
then passing them to foo separately. I have only tried it with scalars,
but I can't see a reason matrices won't work. I actually only had to add
about 10 lines to fsolve. Let me know it it has problems.
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