From dimitris.rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.ac.be  Mon Mar 21 10:39:02 2005
From: dimitris.rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.ac.be (Dimitris Rizopoulos)
Date: Mon Mar 21 10:37:38 2005
Subject: [Rd] initial Hessian in optim's BFGS
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Dear all,

I'd like to ask if it would be a good idea to add an extra argument to 
'optim' (with default value NULL) to give a initial Hessian for the 
BFGS algorithm. This could be handy in some cases where this initial 
approximation is available and thus it isn't required 'optim' to 
compute it again.

Thanks for any comments,
Dimitris

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Biostatistical Centre
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Catholic University of Leuven

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[Rd] initial Hessian in optim's BFGS
Dimitris Rizopoulos