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MATHEMATICA GUIDE

FindFit Fit LeastSquares LinearProgramming Norm PseudoInverse QRDecomposition SingularValueDecomposition

Optimization Linear Regression Package

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Numerical Optimization Constrained Optimization Unconstrained Optimization Solving Linear Systems Advanced Matrix Operations Curve Fitting

Matrix-Based Minimization

LeastSquares — solve an exact or approximate least-squares problem

PseudoInverse — pseudoinverse of a square or rectangular matrix

Norm — matrix and vector p-norms

QRDecomposition ▪ SingularValueDecomposition

Fit — find a linear least-squares fit to a symbolic basis

FindFit — find a general nonlinear least-squares fit

LinearProgramming — solve linear programming problems

TUTORIALS

Numerical Optimization

Constrained Optimization

Unconstrained Optimization

Solving Linear Systems

Advanced Matrix Operations

Curve Fitting

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Optimization

Linear Regression Package

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Demonstrations related to Matrix-Based Minimization (Wolfram Demonstrations Project)