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Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?
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Leo Butler |
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Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint? |
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Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:58:41 -0400 |
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forkandwait <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use qp to do an example in Caswell's Matrix Population Models
> 2001 (p147). (I also know very little about optimization, so please bear with
> me.)
>
> Octave's qp seems to have different parameters than either ML's quadprog or
> Caswell's 2001 version of qp. Since I don't really know what is going on, I
> am
> trying to work the example "formally".
>
> Here is the set up. The problem in Caswell is posed as:
>
> min (p'*G*p)/2 + f'*p
>
> subject to C*p <= b
>
>
> In his sample code to qp (with no initial guess of x0), that is written as:
>
> p = qp(G, f, C, b)
>
> However the Octave documentation states that with qp(X0,H,Q,A,B), A*x = b --
> i.e. that A and b define an EQUALITY constraint, not an inequality constraint.
>
> How do I get an inequality constraint like Caswell's, and make sure not to
> have
> any equality constraints? Do I use A_LB and set the other parameters == []?
>
> Thanks for any help!
In my first post, I should have said to use A_lb, A_in and A_ub to
enforce the inequallity on your slack variable, as you divined.
- qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, forkandwait, 2011/09/22
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, Leo Butler, 2011/09/23
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?,
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- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, forkandwait, 2011/09/23
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2011/09/23
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, Leo Butler, 2011/09/24
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, fork, 2011/09/26
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, Leo Butler, 2011/09/27
- Re: qp(): how do I get a simple inequality constraint?, fork, 2011/09/27