minpack code for least squares?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

> hello,
>
> I've noticed that Octave includes the Powell's hybrid method from
> MINPACK for its fsolve function.
> Since MINPACK also features nonlinear least squares (via trust-region
> approach), I suggest
> including also that relevant part of MINPACK (lmder,lmdif etc) and
> wrap it in a counterpart to
> fsolve (with similar interface) to do nonlinear least squares. I'd
> volunteer for the project.
>
> What do you think?

I'm all for that. I'd like to have more optimization options in Octave.

Any chance minpack includes a minimax method as well?

Ben