golden_section

golden_section, an R code which seeks the maximum of a unimodular ("U-shaped") function in [a,b] using golden section search.

Licensing:

Copyright 2016 James P. Howard, II

The computer code and data files on this web page are distributed under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Languages:

golden_section is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and an R version.

Related Data and Programs:

golden_section_test

Author:

Original R code by James Howard; This version by John Burkardt.

Reference:

1. James Howard,
   Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R,
   CRC Press, 2017,
   ISBN13: 978-1-4987-2363-3.
2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cmna

Source Code:

• golden_section.R, the source code;