[Gretl-users] Re: Question about root-finding of a non-linear equation

Hi Marcin, thanks. It is a good thing that gretl's functionality has so much expanded that one cannot really remember  (or encounter) the whole of it. I tried both approaches (for a single unknown). The non-linear function had the unknown in several places at the same time, either exponentiated, or as an exponent itself, or in logs, or in the denominator. REPORT 1. Run both methods 10,000 times on the same data (two series ranging in (0,1)). 2. When they both succeed for the same data (see next for when they don't), they provide identical results (max abs difference 1.8256e-007). 3. fzero issues:  with the fzero function (where i provided only a single 0.01 initial value), the limitation I see is that we cannot constraint the value of the argmin (and I need it to be in (0,1) for example). But still, in 10,000 attempts it provided an inadmissible solution only for a few dozen cases (these were the cases were the BFGScmin approach gave a solution below the initial value provided for the fzero setup). It also appears that this initial value for fzero cannot be very small because I get "the convergence criterion is not met" and the loop stops (e.g. this happened when I tried to set it equal to 0.001 instead of 0.01). 4. With the BFGScmin (with the (0,1) constraint in place and bfgs_richardson "on"), for some 1.5% of the cases I got an obvious failure in that the solution was admissible, but the value of the objective function was away from zero. In all these cases the solution given was the maximum permissible value, 1. Note that these observations for which BFGScmin failed, /are totally different /from those that fzero provided an inadmissible solution. So, in all 10,000 cases, one method or the other gave a valid result, and in 98% both succeeded. Alecos Papadopoulos PhD Affiliate Researcher Dpt of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) web: alecospapadopoulos.wordpress.com/ ORCID:0000-0003-2441-4550 On 17/11/2024 12:32, Marcin Błażejowski wrote: