Re: [Help-gsl] problems with BFGS

[Juan Pablo Amorocho D.]

Hola Claudio,

Without the code and concrete problem is very difficult to say anything
about your question.

Cheers,

Juan Pablo

2012/6/17 Claudio Tablada <address@hidden>

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to maximize a -log likelihood function of a Birnbaum-Saunders
> distribution with two parameters using BFGS and Monte Carlo. I have the
> samples generates using gsl_ran_gaussian_ziggurat and later transforming
> for the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. The problem is that for some values
> of the sample the algorithm converges and for other values it results in
> NaN. Thanks in advanced.
>
>