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Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant ...

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

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Abstract: A novel, tuning-free, population-based simplex method for continuous function optimization is proposed. The proposed method, called Adaptive Population-based Simplex (APS), uses a population ...