Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Neldermead fit method referenced in printout but not docs #11

Open
Gregg140 opened this issue May 10, 2012 · 0 comments
Open

Neldermead fit method referenced in printout but not docs #11

Gregg140 opened this issue May 10, 2012 · 0 comments

Comments

@Gregg140
Copy link

While running a fit via gui_fit.py, you will be told that the "Method" is neldermead:

Dataset = 1
Method = neldermead
Statistic = userstat
Initial fit statistic = 220842
Final fit statistic = 66676.6 at function evaluation 1000
Data points = 1
Degrees of freedom = -22
Change in statistic = 154165
xijamod.heatsink__3TSMXSPT__T -47.298
xijamod.heatsink__3TSMXSPT__tau 7.10448
xijamod.prop_heat__3TSMXSPT__k 0.110314
..................

But neldermead is not referenced in your documentation:

http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/mta/ASPECT/tool_doc/xija/tutorial.html#fitting-a-model

--fit-method FIT_METHOD
Sherpa fit method (simplex|moncar|levmar)

--fit-method
The default fit method is simplex which is a good compromise between speed and completeness. For the fastest fitting use levmar. If already have somewhat decent parameters and want to try to refine for the very best fit then select moncar. However, do not choose this option with more than about 10 or 15 free parameters as it can take a long time. Typically with moncar you need to start the fitting and then do something else for a while (many hours or more).

Neldermead ought to be referenced in the doc even if in SHERPA, neldermead
and simplex are aliases of the same thing.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant