[Rd] problem with function 'optimise' (PR#9438)

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

the issue here is a numerical one; for instance in your first example 
check:

eps <- sqrt(.Machine$double.eps)
opt1 <- optimise(ex1, lower = 0 - eps, upper = 0.5, maximum = TRUE)

# or

opt1 <- optimise(ex1, lower = 0 + eps, upper = 0.5, maximum = TRUE)


which gives the correct results.

I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <karsten_krug at gmx.net>
To: <r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Cc: <R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: [Rd] problem with function 'optimise' (PR#9438)


> Full_Name: Karsten Krug
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: Open Suse 10.0, Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (88.134.13.50)
>
>
>
> I found a problem in the 'optimise' function for one dimensional 
> optimisation.
>
>
> Example 1:
> Try to find a maximum of the function below with the use of 
> 'optimise' in the
> interval [0,0.5]. The function follows a parabola and has two local 
> maxima
> located at the margins of the interval [0,0.5]. Please try the 
> following code
> which performs this optimisation, produces a plot of the function 
> within the
> given interval and adds the computed maximum returned by 
> 'optimise()'
>
> ex1 <- function(x) log(4 * x^2 - 2 * x + 0.5)
> opt1 <- optimise(ex1, lower=0, upper=0.5, maximum=T)
> x <- seq(0,0.5,0.001)
> plot(x, ex1(x), type="l")
> abline(v=opt1$maximum, col="red")
>
> The returned value of the maximum is 0.309017 which is definitely 
> wrong.
>
>
> Example 2:
> The next function has also two equivalent maxima this time not 
> located at the
> margins of the interval [0, 9/41]. Thus, the maxima are real 
> analytic extrema.
> The function 'optimise()' again returns a wrong value.
>
> ex2 <- function(x) log((18/41) * x - 2 * x^2) + 16 *  log(4 * x^2 - 
> (36/41) * x
> + (9/41)) + 24 * log((23/82) +  (18/41) * x - 2 * x^2)
> opt2 <- optimise(ex2, lower=0, upper=(9/41), maximum=T)
> x <- seq(0,9/41,0.001)
> plot(x,ex2(x),type="l")
> abline(v=opt2$maximum, col="red")
>
>
> The two functions are not only of theoretical interest but have to 
> be optimised
> as likelihood functions when dealing with SNP data.
>
> I observed this problem on Windows XP and Open Suse 10.0. Other 
> platforms have
> to be tested.
>
>
> Some informations:
>
> Open Suse 10.0
>
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          10
> day            03
> svn rev        39566
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
>
> Windows XP:
>
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          10
> day            03
> svn rev        39566
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
>
>
>
> With best regards,
>
> Karsten Krug
> Student at University of Leipzig
>
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