[AstroPy] Q re. function minimization

[Wolfgang Kerzendorf]

I can recommend pyminuit that was mentioned by Neil. I don't even find 
it flaky and you can fix parameters and do three different types of 
optimization.

Cheers
   W
On 1/06/11 12:26 AM, Ian Crossfield wrote:
> What functions or wrappers do people use for minimizing a function in
> multidimensional parameter space?  I have some experience with the
> scipy.optimize subfunctions but I've never been entirely happy with
> them; there also appear to be options in sage and a Python MPFIT.  What
> I'd like is a method that lets one minimize a function but also allows
> things like passed keyword arguments (unsupported in scipy.optimize) and
> above all a way to minimize while holding specified parameters fixed --
> so that one can minimize over all parameters, and then repeat with some
> parameters held constant without having to write an entirely new
> function for each peculiar set of parameters.
>
> Is anything that offers these features this out there?  How do people
> deal with this?
>
> Thanks,
>