Document: cminpack-doc
Title: cminpack Library Users Manual
Author: Frédéric Devern
Abstract: This is the official description of Minpack, from the original ReadMe file:
 Minpack includes software for solving nonlinear equations and nonlinear least
 squares problems. Five algorithmic paths each include a core subroutine and an
 easy-to-use driver. The algorithms proceed either from an analytic
 specification of the Jacobian matrix or directly from the problem functions.
 The paths include facilities for systems of equations with a banded Jacobian
 matrix, for least squares problems with a large amount of data, and for
 checking the consistency of the Jacobian matrix with the functions.
 .
 The original authors of the FORTRAN version are Jorge More', Burt Garbow, and
 Ken Hillstrom from Argonne National Laboratory, and the code can be obtained
 from Netlib.
 .
 Minpack is probably the best open-source implementation of the
 Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm (in fact, it is even better, since it adds to L-M
 automatic variables scaling). There is another open-source L-M implementation
 in C/C++, levmar by Manolis Lourakis, but unfortunately is released under
 the GPL, which restricts its inclusion in commercial software. Minpack is
 licensed under a BSD-like license (available in the distribution).
Section: Science/Data Analysis

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