I am working with a rather large block matrix that needs a little help in converging and was wondering if there is any method of setting initial parameter values before optimization.  I have a reasonably good idea what the values should be, but I cannot get some of my matrices to converge.

setting the parameters to values when declaring them will initialize the optimization at those starting points. for instance


Code (]global p1 = 0.05[/code):

will initialize p1 @ 0.05. If you know what the parameters should be you you could test the implementation by hard coding them. [code]global p1 := 0.05

will constrain p1 to 0.05 in the optimization. Besides that I can't help anymore without more information on what you're trying to do and whether you're using an existing or custom batch file. cheers ./w