I can confirm that AD Model Builder is used at the Danish
Institute for Fisheries Research, and by fisheries people in
and all around the Pacific.
On a few occasions I have solved a likelihood optimization
problem in AD Model Builder, and then wrapped the binary
in an R-package, with data read
Dear Alberto,
There are fisheries people also in Europe using AD Model Builder (Denmark and
England for instance),
but you are probably right that it is more widespread in North America. There
is also effort
going on where people try to make assessment models written in ADMB callable
from R.
b
On Thursday 26 January 2006 07:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While symbolic computation is handy, I actually think a more pressing
> addition to R is some kind of automatic differentiation facility,
> particularly 'reverse mode' AD, which can be spectacular. There are
> free tools available for i