| Parameter Name |
Description |
L, M, B |
Used by Functions |
| DerivativeCheck |
Compare user-supplied analytic derivatives (gradients or Jacobian) to finite differencing derivatives. |
M |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fminunc, fseminf,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin |
| Diagnostics |
Print diagnostic information about the function to be minimized or solved. |
B |
All but fminbnd,fminsearch, fzero, andlsqnonneg |
| DiffMaxChange |
Maximum change in variables for finite difference derivatives. |
M |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fminunc, fseminf,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin |
| DiffMinChange |
Minimum change in variables for finite difference derivatives. |
M |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fminunc, fseminf,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin |
| Display |
Level of display. 'off' displays no output; 'iter' displays output at each iteration; 'final' displays just the final output; 'notify' displays output only if function does not converge. |
B |
All. See the individual function reference pages for the values that apply. |
| GoalsExactAchieve |
Number of goals to achieve exactly (do not over- or underachieve). |
M |
fgoalattain |
| GradConstr |
Gradients for the nonlinear constraints defined by the user. |
M |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax |
| GradObj |
Gradient(s) for the objective function(s) defined by the user. |
B |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fminunc, fseminf |
| Hessian |
If 'on', function uses user-defined Hessian, or Hessian information (when using HessMult), for the objective function. If 'off', function approximates the Hessian using finite differences. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc |
| HessMult |
Hessian multiply function defined by the user. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc,quadprog |
| HessPattern |
Sparsity pattern of the Hessian for finite differencing. The size of the matrix is n-by-n, where n is the number of elements in x0, the starting point. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc |
| HessUpdate |
Quasi-Newton updating scheme. |
M |
fminunc |
| Jacobian |
If 'on', function uses user-defined Jacobian, or Jacobian information (when using JacobMult), for the objective function. If 'off', function approximates the Jacobian using finite differences. |
B |
fsolve, lsqcurvefit,lsqnonlin |
| JacobMult |
Jacobian multiply function defined by the user. |
L |
fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqlin,lsqnonlin |
| JacobPattern |
Sparsity pattern of the Jacobian for finite differencing. The size of the matrix is m-by-n, where m is the number of values in the first argument returned by the user-specified function fun, and n is the number of elements in x0, the starting point. |
L |
fsolve, lsqcurvefit,lsqnonlin |
| LargeScale |
Use large-scale algorithm if possible. |
B |
fmincon, fminunc,fsolve, linprog, lsqcurvefit,lsqlin, lsqnonlin, quadprog |
| LevenbergMarquardt |
Chooses Levenberg-Marquardt over Gauss-Newton algorithm. |
M |
lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin |
| LineSearchType |
Line search algorithm choice. |
M |
fminunc, fsolve,lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin |
| MaxFunEvals |
Maximum number of function evaluations allowed. |
B |
fgoalattain, fminbnd,fmincon, fminimax,fminsearch, fminunc,fseminf, fsolve, lsqcurvefit,lsqnonlin |
| MaxIter |
Maximum number of iterations allowed. |
B |
All but fzero andlsqnonneg |
| MaxPCGIter |
Maximum number of PCG iterations allowed. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqlin,lsqnonlin, quadprog |
| MeritFunction |
Use goal attainment/minimax merit function (multiobjective) vs. fmincon (single objective). |
M |
fgoalattain, fminimax |
| MinAbsMax |
Number of F(x) to minimize the worst case absolute values |
M |
fminimax |
| NonlEqnAlgorithm |
Choose Levenberg-Marquardt or Gauss-Newton over the trust-region dogleg algorithm. |
M |
fsolve |
| PrecondBandWidth |
Upper bandwidth of preconditioner for PCG. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqlin,lsqnonlin, quadprog |
| TolCon |
Termination tolerance on the constraint violation. |
B |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fseminf |
| TolFun |
Termination tolerance on the function value. |
B |
fgoalattain, fmincon,fminimax, fminsearch,fminunc, fseminf, fsolve,linprog (large-scale only),lsqcurvefit, lsqlin (large-scale only), lsqnonlin,quadprog (large-scale only) |
| TolPCG |
Termination tolerance on the PCG iteration. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqlin,lsqnonlin, quadprog |
| TolX |
Termination tolerance on x. |
B |
All functions except the medium-scale algorithms forlinprog, lsqlin, and quadprog |
| TypicalX |
Typical x values. The length of the vector is equal to the number of elements in x0, the starting point. |
L |
fmincon, fminunc,fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqlin,lsqnonlin, quadprog |
