Re: usage of inline and fminbnd

[etienne]

  Hi Chris,

fminbnd works for me, as long as I pass something (e.g. an empty vector)
for the OPTIONS arg, to separate the first argument ("x") from the fixed
P1 argument ("b", in your case):

octave:25> help fminbnd
 -- Function File: [X] = fminbnd(F,LB,UB,[OPTIONS],P1,P2, ...)
     Find the minimum of a scalar function with the Golden Search
     method.

     *Inputs*
    F
          A string contining the name of the function to minimiz

    LB
          Value to use as an initial lower bound on X.

    UB
          Value to use as an initial upper bound on X.

    OPTIONS
          Vector with control parameters (For compatibily with MATLAB,
          not used here)

    P1,P2, ...
          Optional parameter for function F

octave:26> function y = my_example_func (x,b), if nargin<2, b = 2.34;
endif; y = - cos (x-b) + (x-b)^2; endfunction
octave:27> x0 = fminbnd ("my_example_func",0,10) x0 =  2.3400
octave:28> x0 = fminbnd ("my_example_func",0,10,[],1.23)
x0 =  1.2300

  Hth,

  Etienne


On Tue, February 13, 2007 12:29 pm, Chris Zarowski said:
> Hello.
>
> I cannot figure out how to use fminbnd (Golden section
> search minimizer).
>
> The problem is that I cannot pass a constant
> parameter.
>
> In the attached script I want to minimize f(x,b)
> w.r.t x on interval [0,fp], but I need to vary f according
> to constant b.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Chris Z_______________________________________________
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