My thinking is that a good guess can increase speed of refitting under minor changes. There might be lots of reasons why a user might already have a good idea of the solution.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:27:11 +0200, Gilles wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Please have a look at >> >> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/MATH-1014<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1014> >> >> In summary, this is an API change (in line with the fluent API >> proposed for the optimizers); but usage is simplified: >> >> [...] >> > > As a further simplification, I also wonder whether the capability > to provide an initial guess (cf. method "withStartPoint" in class > "GaussianCurveFitter") should not be removed from specific fitters > that provide automatic guessing (as this procedure should embody > the best possible guess given the input data). Indeed a too "crude" > guess might confuse the optimizer (and thus the users, leading to > unnecessary bug reports). > > > Regards, > Gilles > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
