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Davidon is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include: Ruth
Davidon (born 1964),
American rower William C.
Davidon (1927–2013),
American physicist...
- Ruth
Davidon Rodgers (born
March 20, 1964, in New York City) is an
American rower and
medical doctor. As Ruth
Davidon, she
finished 6th in the
single sculls...
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William Cooper Davidon (March 18, 1927 –
November 8, 2013) was an
American professor of
physics and mathematics, and a
peace activist. As the mastermind...
- The
Davidon–Fletcher–Powell
formula (or DFP;
named after William C.
Davidon,
Roger Fletcher, and
Michael J. D. Powell)
finds the
solution to the secant...
- In statistics,
maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a
method of
estimating the
parameters of an ****umed
probability distribution,
given some observed...
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solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Like the
related Davidon–Fletcher–Powell method, BFGS
determines the
descent direction by preconditioning...
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later a
component of Data
Facility Storage Management Subsystem for MVS
Davidon-Fletcher-Powell
formula in
mathematical optimization Decimal floating point...
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Robert "Bob" Williamson; the
mastermind and recruiter,
William C.
Davidon, died in 2013
before the book was
published but had
planned to
reveal his...
- the Hessian. The
first quasi-Newton
algorithm was
proposed by
William C.
Davidon, a
physicist working at
Argonne National Laboratory. He
developed the first...
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convergence of the
iterative procedure is guaranteed.[citation needed]
Davidon–Fletcher–Powell (DFP)
algorithm Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS)...
