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  2. Maximum and minimum - Wikipedia

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    Local maximum at x = −1− √ 15 /3, local minimum at x = −1+ √ 15 /3, global maximum at x = 2 and global minimum at x = −4. For a practical example, [ 6 ] assume a situation where someone has 200 {\displaystyle 200} feet of fencing and is trying to maximize the square footage of a rectangular enclosure, where x {\displaystyle x} is ...

  3. Mathematical optimization - Wikipedia

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    The minimum value in this case is 1, occurring at x = 0. Similarly, the notation asks for the maximum value of the objective function 2x, where x may be any real number. In this case, there is no such maximum as the objective function is unbounded, so the answer is "infinity" or "undefined".

  4. Golden-section search - Wikipedia

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    The golden-section search is a technique for finding an extremum (minimum or maximum) of a function inside a specified interval. For a strictly unimodal function with an extremum inside the interval, it will find that extremum, while for an interval containing multiple extrema (possibly including the interval boundaries), it will converge to one of them.

  5. Lagrange multiplier - Wikipedia

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    In mathematical optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers is a strategy for finding the local maxima and minima of a function subject to equation constraints (i.e., subject to the condition that one or more equations have to be satisfied exactly by the chosen values of the variables). [1]

  6. Sample maximum and minimum - Wikipedia

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    For a sample set, the maximum function is non-smooth and thus non-differentiable. For optimization problems that occur in statistics it often needs to be approximated by a smooth function that is close to the maximum of the set. A smooth maximum, for example, g(x 1, x 2, …, x n) = log( exp(x 1) + exp(x 2) + … + exp(x n) )

  7. Selection algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a problem on elements is reduced to two recursive problems on / elements (to find the pivot) and at most / elements (after the pivot is used). The total size of these two recursive subproblems is at most 9 n / 10 {\displaystyle 9n/10} , allowing the total time to be analyzed as a geometric series adding to O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)} .

  8. Constrained optimization - Wikipedia

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    If the constrained problem has only equality constraints, the method of Lagrange multipliers can be used to convert it into an unconstrained problem whose number of variables is the original number of variables plus the original number of equality constraints. Alternatively, if the constraints are all equality constraints and are all linear ...

  9. Least squares - Wikipedia

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    The result of fitting a set of data points with a quadratic function Conic fitting a set of points using least-squares approximation. In regression analysis, least squares is a parameter estimation method based on minimizing the sum of the squares of the residuals (a residual being the difference between an observed value and the fitted value provided by a model) made in the results of each ...