Simplex

class astropy.modeling.optimizers.Simplex

Bases: astropy.modeling.optimizers.Optimization

Neald-Mead (downhill simplex) algorithm [1].

This algorithm only uses function values, not derivatives. Uses scipy.optimize.fmin.

[R8]	Nelder, J.A. and Mead, R. (1965), “A simplex method for function minimization”, The Computer Journal, 7, pp. 308-313

Attributes Summary

supported_constraints

Methods Summary

__call__(objfunc, initval, fargs, **kwargs)

Run the solver.

Attributes Documentation

supported_constraints = [u'bounds', u'fixed', u'tied']

Methods Documentation

__call__(objfunc, initval, fargs, **kwargs)

Run the solver.

Parameters:

objfunc : callable

objection function

initval : iterable

initial guess for the parameter values

fargs : tuple

other arguments to be passed to the statistic function

kwargs : dict

other keyword arguments to be passed to the solver