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+## Copyright (C) 2002 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
+## Copyright (C) 2004 Michael Creel <michael.creel@uab.es>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## ok - Test that bfgs works with extra
+## arguments
+##
+## Defines some simple functions and verifies that calling
+## bfgs on them returns the correct minimum.
+##
+## Sets 'ok' to 1 if success, 0 otherwise
+
+if ! exist ("optim_func"), optim_func = "bfgsmin"; end
+
+ok = 1;
+
+if ! exist ("verbose"), verbose = 0; end
+
+P = 2;
+R = 3;
+
+## Make tests reproducible
+## obsmat = randn(R,P) ;
+obsmat = zeros (R,P);
+obsmat(sub2ind([R,P],1:R,1+rem(0:R-1,P))) = 1:R;
+
+## Make test_min_2 repeatable by using fixed starting point
+## truep = randn(P,1) ;
+## xinit = randn(P,1) ;
+truep = rem (1:P, P/4)';
+xinit = truep + 2*(1:P)'/(P);
+
+
+## global obses ;
+obses = obsmat*truep ;
+
+extra = {obsmat, obses};
+
+
+function v = ff(x, obsmat, obses)
+ v = mean ( (obses - obsmat*x)(:).^2 ) + 1 ;
+endfunction
+
+
+function dv = dff(x, obsmat, obses)
+ er = -obses + obsmat*x ;
+ dv = 2*er'*obsmat / rows(obses) ;
+ ## dv = 2*er'*obsmat ;
+endfunction
+
+
+
+if verbose
+ printf (" Checking that extra arguments are accepted\n\n");
+
+ printf ([" Set 'optim_func' to the name of the optimization\n",\
+ " function you want to test (must have same synopsis\n",\
+ " as 'bfgs')\n\n"]);
+
+ printf (" Tested function : %s\n",optim_func);
+ printf (" Nparams = P = %i, Nobses = R = %i\n",P,R);
+ fflush (stdout);
+end
+function dt = mytic()
+ persistent last_mytic = 0 ;
+ [t,u,s] = cputime() ;
+ dt = t - last_mytic ;
+ last_mytic = t ;
+endfunction
+
+ctl.df = "dff";
+mytic() ;
+## [xlev,vlev,nlev] = feval (optim_func, "ff", "dff", xinit, "extra", extra) ;
+## [xlev,vlev,nlev] = feval \
+## (optim_func, "ff", "dff", list (xinit, obsmat, obses));
+if strcmp(optim_func,"bfgsmin")
+ ctl = {-1,2,1,1};
+endif
+[xlev,vlev,nlev] = feval \
+ (optim_func, "ff", {xinit, obsmat, obses}, ctl);
+tlev = mytic() ;
+
+
+if max (abs(xlev-truep)) > 1e-4,
+ if verbose,
+ printf ("Error is too big : %8.3g\n", max (abs (xlev-truep)));
+ end
+ ok = 0;
+end
+if verbose,
+ printf (" Costs : init=%8.3g, final=%8.3g, best=%8.3g\n",\
+ ff(xinit,obsmat,obses), vlev, ff(truep,obsmat,obses));
+end
+if verbose
+ printf ( " time : %8.3g\n",tlev);
+end
+if verbose && ok
+ printf ( "All tests ok\n");
+end
+