NIST Statistical Reference Datasets for Nonlinear Regression by Adam Gripton

MAT file of all the benchmark Nonlinear Regression problems from the NIST StRD website (nonlinear, regression, statistics)

Hunt For Local Maxima, Minima, Plateau by Michael Chan

Illustrates identification of local maxima, minima or plateau, for exit criteria for long processes. (bioinformatics, image processing, intensive)

benchmarkSampleFunction (thresholdInitial_Trial)

determineLocationsOfMaximaMinimaPlateauFromProclivityFeatur...

determineProclivity( currentInput, previousInput )

Improving the convergence of Nelder-Mead (and so fminsearch) by Emile Simon

This highlights a (common) trick to improve the convergence of NM, and a problem within fminsearch. (optimization, neldermead, restart)

nmsmax(fun, x, stopit, savit, varargin)

BenchmarkXSquared.m

Line Phantoms For Back Projection Detectability Tests by Michael Chan

Drafts lines used as biomedical phantoms for Back Projection Detectability Tests. (biomedical, image processing, detectability)

draftLinesForBackProjectionTest(scratchPad, numberOfLinesRe...

drawline(p1,p2,image_size)

imagePlot( imageData, plotRowSize, plotColSize, ...