MPITB extensions found ====================================================== BFGSMIN final results Used numeric gradient ------------------------------------------------------ STRONG CONVERGENCE Function conv 1 Param conv 1 Gradient conv 1 ------------------------------------------------------ Objective function value -0.0130329 Stepsize 0.102833 43 iterations ------------------------------------------------------ param gradient change 15.9999 -0.0000 0.0000 -28.8119 0.0000 0.0000 The result with poor start values ans = 16.000 -28.812 ================================================ SAMIN final results NORMAL CONVERGENCE Func. tol. 1.000000e-10 Param. tol. 1.000000e-03 Obj. fn. value -0.100023 parameter search width 0.037419 0.000018 -0.000000 0.000051 ================================================ Now try a battery of random start values and a short BFGS on each, then iterate to convergence The result using 20 randoms start values ans = 3.7417e-02 2.7628e-07 The true maximizer is near (0.037,0)