Wrapper around nlminb — nlminb_wrapper • mrds

This is a wrapper around nlminb to use scaling, as this is not available in optimx.

Usage

nlminb_wrapper(
  par,
  ll,
  ugr = NULL,
  lower = NULL,
  upper = NULL,
  mcontrol,
  hess = NULL,
  ddfobj,
  data,
  ...
)

Arguments

par: starting parameters
ll: log likelihood function
ugr: gradient function
lower: lower bounds on parameters
upper: upper bounds on parameters
mcontrol: control options
hess: hessian function
ddfobj: detection function specification object
data: the data
...: anything else to pass to ll

Value

optimx object

Author

David L Miller, modified from optimx.run by JC Nash, R Varadhan, G Grothendieck.