[R] L-BFGS-B and parscale in optim()

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Thu May 26 01:46:02 CEST 2011


Sebastian P. Luque <spluque <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> When using method L-BFGS-B along with a parscale argument, should the
> lower and upper bounds provided be on the scaled or unscaled values?
> Thanks.

  I think you can figure this out by experimentation on your own,
but I believe that all of the scaling done by parscale is internal
(i.e., you should provide bounds on the original, unmodified scale).



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