Subject: Optimization...

From: [email-masked] (C.S.RAMAN)
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:47:59 -0500 (CDT)

Dear Netters:

Are you aware of public domain code for fast optimization without
involving derivatives?  I have a need for curve fitting in a a
multivariate problem and the regular non-linear least squares
(Levenberg-Marquardt) approach is too slow.  

Cheers
-raman
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