Understanding the syntax of the minimax constraint problem
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Dear all I am trying to solve a minimax constraint problem, where the objective function is an absolute function.
Given the data set A with 3 variables,x(1), x(2) and x(3) and an unknown error term x(4):
0.0027 0.0025 0.0025
0.0028 0.0030 0.0029
0.0030 0.0031 0.0031
0.0031 0.0031 0.0032
0.0032 0.0032 0.0033
0.0033 0.0033 0.0034
0.0035 0.0035 0.0035
0.0036 0.0032 0.0036
0.0031 0.0037 0.0037
I define the absolute function of the minimax problem:
function F = maximizefunc(A)
for i=1:size(A,1)
F(i)=A(i,1)*x(1)+A(i,2)*x(2)+A(i,3)*x(3)+x(4);
end
end
% Make a starting guess at solution
x0 = 0.1*rand(4,1);
and apply the code given in on of the last examples on the matlab site (https://nl.mathworks.com/help/optim/ug/fminimax.html)
options = optimoptions('fminimax','AbsoluteMaxObjectiveCount',5); % Minimize abs. values
[x,fval] = fminimax(@maximizefunc,x0,...
[],[],[],[],[],[],[],options);
But I am getting only errors saying:
Function definitions in a script must appear at the end of the file.
Move all statements after the "maximizefunc" function definition to before the function definition.
Error in fminimax (line 351)
user_f = feval(funfcn{3},x,varargin{:});
Does anyone have a suggestion for me? I do not really understand how the option function should be constructed. Can somebody give me some feedback pls.
Thank u in advance
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Alan Weiss
on 29 Nov 2018
Your problem is that you want to include a data matrix A as extra data, but you are doing it incorrectly. See Passing Extra Parameters. Your function should look like this:
function F = maximizefunc(x,A)
% code here
end
Then you call it like this:
[args] = fminimax(@(x)maximizefunc(x,A),[more args])
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