<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Optimization - Untitled</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Differential-Equations.html#Differential-Equations" title="Differential Equations"> <link rel="next" href="Statistics.html#Statistics" title="Statistics"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Optimization"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Statistics.html#Statistics">Statistics</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Differential-Equations.html#Differential-Equations">Differential Equations</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">24 Optimization</h2> <p>Octave comes with support for solving various kinds of optimization problems. Specifically Octave can solve problems in Linear Programming, Quadratic Programming, Nonlinear Programming, and Linear Least Squares Minimization. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Linear-Programming.html#Linear-Programming">Linear Programming</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Quadratic-Programming.html#Quadratic-Programming">Quadratic Programming</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Nonlinear-Programming.html#Nonlinear-Programming">Nonlinear Programming</a> <li><a accesskey="4" href="Linear-Least-Squares.html#Linear-Least-Squares">Linear Least Squares</a> </ul> <!-- @cindex linear programming --> <p><a name="index-quadratic-programming-1795"></a><a name="index-nonlinear-programming-1796"></a><a name="index-optimization-1797"></a><a name="index-LP-1798"></a><a name="index-QP-1799"></a><a name="index-NLP-1800"></a> </body></html>